Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 4, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT for Ballard County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 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
- May 4, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT (02:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2003, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ballard County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:25 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1192 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KPAH 050225 TORPAH KYC007-050315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 924 PM CDT SUN MAY 4 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BALLARD COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1015 PM CDT * AT 920 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF BARLOW...OR NEAR MOUND CITY ILLINOIS...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BANDANA AND LA CENTER 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 3715 8908 3702 8913 3702 8887 3721 8896 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 9:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | McCracken | 50 min |
| May 4, 9:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 3 hr |
| May 4, 9:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston | 47 min |
| May 4, 10:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway | 38 min |
| May 4, 10:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves | 32 min |
| May 4, 10:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 37 min |
| May 4, 10:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 36 min |
| May 4, 10:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 43 min |
| May 4, 10:50 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Lyon and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 40 min |
| May 4, 10:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Webster | 35 min |
| May 4, 10:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Trigg | 48 min |
| May 4, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 53 min |
| May 4, 11:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway | 57 min |
| May 4, 11:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 42 min |
| May 4, 11:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 54 min |
| May 4, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 53 min |
| May 5, 1:25 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 3 hr |
| May 5, 2:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 44 min |
| May 5, 2:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 36 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.