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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

April 4, 2003Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2003, 7:37 PM CST for Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 38 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2003, 7:37 PM CST (01:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2003, 8:15 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 4, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1487 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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

726 
WFUS53 KPAH 050137
TORPAH
MOC207-050215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
737 PM CST FRI APR 4 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 815 PM CST

* AT 734 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF DUDLEY...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF BERNIE...MOVING
  EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  4 MILES NORTH OF BERNIE AT 750 PM CST
  4 MILES SOUTH OF DEXTER AT 755 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.

LAT...LON 3679 9021 3663 9016 3663 8971 3680 8971

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 4, 6:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	36 min
Apr 4, 6:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	37 min
Apr 4, 7:13 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	32 min
Apr 4, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	56 min
Apr 4, 7:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	26 min
Apr 4, 8:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	40 min
Apr 4, 8:44 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.