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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Paducah, KY

May 6, 2003Alexander County, Illinois; Cape Girardeau County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 9:12 PM CDT for Alexander County, Illinois; Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 13 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, 9:12 PM CDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2003, 9:25 PM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Alexander County, IL, Cape Girardeau County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:11 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
May 6, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 286 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

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The text

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

427 
WFUS53 KPAH 070212
TORPAH
ILC003-MOC031-070225-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ALEXANDER COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
  NORTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 925 PM CDT

* AT 906 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CAPE
  GIRARDEAU...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BROWNFIELD

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 3755 8957 3729 8964 3719 8931 3732 8927
          3735 8946

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 8:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	42 min
May 6, 8:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	45 min
May 6, 8:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pulaski, Union	50 min
May 6, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	33 min
May 6, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	47 min
May 6, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac	42 min
May 6, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	23 min
May 6, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	36 min
May 6, 9:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	48 min
May 6, 9:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Perry	3 hr
May 6, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope	49 min
May 6, 9:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	31 min
May 6, 10:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pope	55 min
May 6, 10:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac	8 min
May 6, 10:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	12 min
May 6, 10:20 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Union	3 hr
May 6, 10:26 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson, Pulaski	49 min
May 6, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	29 min
May 6, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Union	12 min
May 6, 10:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Massac	39 min
May 6, 10:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hardin	45 min
May 6, 10:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pope	46 min
May 6, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac	37 min
May 6, 11:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gallatin	44 min
May 6, 11:40 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Johnson, Massac, Pope	4 hr
May 7, 12:56 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hardin	2 hr
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, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	19 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, 9:44 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, 10:24 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.