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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 6, 2003, 11:09 PM CDT for Graves County, McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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, 11:09 PM CDT (04:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2003, 11:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Graves County, KY, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 1519 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
256
WFUS53 KPAH 070409
TORPAH
KYC083-145-070445-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1109 PM CDT TUE MAY 6 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
NORTHERN GRAVES COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 1145 PM CDT
* AT 1107 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHWEST OF LOWES...OR ABOUT 2 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOVELACEVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE LOVELACEVILLE AREAS JUST SOUTH OF LONE
OAK AND SYMSONIA
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 3705 8879 3684 8881 3683 8851 3694 8850
3705 8856
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 9:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard | 42 min |
| May 6, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | McCracken | 42 min |
| May 6, 10:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston | 55 min |
| May 6, 10:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 45 min |
| May 6, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 54 min |
| May 6, 10:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard | 51 min |
| May 6, 11:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 44 min |
| May 6, 11:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston | 39 min |
| May 6, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 30 min |
| May 6, 11:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 39 min |
| May 6, 11:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Marshall | 28 min |
| May 6, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden | 27 min |
| May 6, 11:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 61 min |
| May 7, 12:03 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Lyon, Trigg | 42 min |
| May 7, 12:08 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins | 37 min |
| May 7, 12:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 51 min |
| May 7, 12:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Webster | 26 min |
| May 7, 12:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 52 min |
| May 7, 12:56 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Union | 2 hr |
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.