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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Paducah, KY

May 6, 2003Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 8:56 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 19 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 6, 2003, 8:56 PM CDT (01:56 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 19 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cape Girardeau County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:56 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 6, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 2657 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.6
Supercell composite: 17.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

827 
WFUS53 KPAH 070156
TORPAH
MOC031-070215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
856 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 851 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO OVER   
JACKSON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

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 3756 8971 3732 8962 3738 8946 3755 8955

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	46 min
May 6, 8:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	22 min
May 6, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	44 min
May 6, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	44 min
May 6, 8:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	39 min
May 6, 8:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Bollinger	34 min
May 6, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	42 min
May 6, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Perry	32 min
May 6, 9:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	42 min
May 6, 9:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	13 min
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	33 min
May 6, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	31 min
May 6, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	43 min
May 6, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	51 min
May 6, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry	3 hr
May 6, 10:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	36 min
May 6, 10:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	54 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.