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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2002, 11:15 PM CST for Johnson County, Pope County, Illinois. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 9, 2002, 11:15 PM CST (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Johnson County, IL, Pope County, IL
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 11:55 PM CST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Goreville, IL | Several trees were blown down near Lake of Egypt and Goreville. |
| Nov 10, 12:08 AM CST | Hail 1.75 | Eddyville, IL | Golf-ball size hail fell on Illinois Route 145 north of Eddyville. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 6:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 238 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1360 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 401 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 9, 9:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken | 36 min |
| Nov 9, 11:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Graves | 27 min |
| Nov 9, 11:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 38 min |
| Nov 9, 11:56 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 12:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union, Webster | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 1:35 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 3 hr |
| Nov 10, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 30 min |
| Nov 10, 2:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Webster | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 3:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 48 min |
| Nov 10, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 3:37 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 23 min |
| Nov 10, 4:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 5:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 42 min |
| Nov 10, 5:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 26 min |
| Nov 9, 11:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 47 min |
| Nov 9, 11:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin | 50 min |
| Nov 9, 11:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 12:11 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Saline | 64 min |
| Nov 10, 12:29 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hardin | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 12:59 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 1:14 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin | 3 hr |
| Nov 10, 1:23 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson | 37 min |
| Nov 10, 1:40 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin | 50 min |
| Nov 10, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hamilton | 41 min |
| Nov 10, 2:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne, White | 27 min |
| Nov 10, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 33 min |
| Nov 9, 6:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 24 min |
| Nov 9, 7:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 28 min |
| Nov 9, 8:28 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 32 min |
| Nov 9, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 24 min |
| Nov 9, 10:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Stoddard | 61 min |
| Nov 10, 2:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott | 27 min |
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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.