Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002

Tornado Warning 57, NWS Paducah, KY

November 10, 2002Daviess County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 3:35 PM CST for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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: Nov 10, 2002, 3:35 PM CST (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 4:00 PM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Daviess County, KY

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 10, 2:35 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 410 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 9.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

109 
WFUS53 KPAH 102135
TORPAH
KYC059-102200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
334 PM CST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 400 PM CST

* AT 328 PM CST...SPOTTERS OBSERVED FUNNEL CLOUDS TORNADO NEAR
  OWENSBORO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE CAPABILITY 
  TO PRODUCE A TORNADO AT ANY TIME. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN
  REPORTED.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE...
OVER RURAL NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY AT 350 PM CST

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, 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, 3:37 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

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2002 Every tornado warning in 2002 Tornadoes in 2002

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.