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Tornado Warning 50, NWS Paducah, KY

November 9, 2002Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 9, 2002, 11:40 PM CST for Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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, 11:40 PM CST (05:40 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 12:30 AM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Hardin County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:44 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 10, 12:40 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Countywide, IL	Trees were blown down.

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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 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

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The text

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

138 
WFUS53 KPAH 100540
TORPAH
ILC069-100630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1139 PM CST SAT NOV 9 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1230 AM CST

* AT 1134 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  KARBERS RIDGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... KARBERS RIDGE AND GROSS 

SEEK SHELTER NOW 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.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 9, 11:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pope	45 min
Nov 9, 11:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	47 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, 2:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Alexander	30 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

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.