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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY

April 19, 2002Bollinger County, Cape Girardeau County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 19, 2002, 2:58 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Cape Girardeau County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 19, 2002, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2002, 3:45 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 19, 3:15 PM CDT	Hail 0.88	Delta, MO	Nickel size hail fell in association with the supercell thunderstorm that produced a funnel cloud in northern Stoddard County.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 19, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 19, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 262 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -283 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 191958
TORPAH
MOC017-031-207-192045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
258 PM CDT FRI APR 19 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BOLLINGER COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  SOUTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN MISSOURI
  NORTHERN STODDARD COUNTY IN MISSOURI

* UNTIL 345 PM CDT

* AT 257 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 12 MILES NORTH OF
  ADVANCE...MOVING SOUTHHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE PATH...
  GLENNON
  DONGOLA
  SANK
  ARBOR
  DELTA
  RANDLES 
  ADVANCE 
  TOGA 

SEEK SHELTER NOW

MOVE INTO A BASEMENT...OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A 
STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. THIS STORM 
ALSO HAS A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER OR ANY STORM DAMAGE TO YOUR LOCAL LAW
ENFORCEMENT...FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. STAY TUNED
FOR LATER STATEMENTS.

LAT...LON 3722 9013 3705 8990 3707 8983 3724 8970
          3731 8995

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 19, 10:04 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	26 min
Apr 19, 2:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Wayne	74 min
Apr 19, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott, Stoddard	73 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.