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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Paducah, KY

May 1, 2002Wayne County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2002, 2:44 PM CDT for Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min. 2 reports 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: May 1, 2002, 2:44 PM CDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, IL

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 1, 2:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 51 M	Flora, IL	Several large trees were blown down in Flora and south of Clay City. The winds also damaged dugouts at the little league field in Flora.
May 1, 3:06 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Cisne, IL

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
May 1, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 1, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1126 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 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 011944
TORPAH
ILC191-012030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
244 PM CDT WED MAY 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 241 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 19 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  CISNE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  3 MILES NORTH OF CISNE AT 305 PM CDT

SEEK SHELTER NOW THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WIND 
DAMAGE.

MOVE INTO A BASEMENT...OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES.

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 3878 8878 3862 8888 3835 8844 3838 8815
          3860 8815

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash	40 min
May 1, 3:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Wabash	17 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.