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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Paducah, KY

September 20, 2002McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 20, 2002, 1:42 PM CDT for McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 20, 2002, 1:42 PM CDT (18:42 UTC)
Expired
Sep 20, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Paducah, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 20, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 148 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-09-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 719 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-09-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 203 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
203 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
5.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHMcLean, Muhlenberg44 min
Sep 20, 12:45 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHTrigg45 min
Sep 20, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAHChristian, Hopkins34 min
Sep 20, 1:24 PM CDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins51 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.