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Tornado Warning 65, NWS Paducah, KY

May 11, 2003Hopkins County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 11, 2003, 1:03 AM CDT for Hopkins County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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 11, 2003, 1:03 AM CDT (06:03 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2003, 1:20 AM CDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hopkins County, KY

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 10, 11:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 1200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.2

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The text

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

359 
WFUS53 KPAH 110603
TORPAH
KYC107-110620-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
103 AM CDT SUN MAY 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 120 AM CDT

* AT 103 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  MADISONVILLE...OR ABOUT 3 MILES EAST OF MADISONVILLE...MOVING
  EAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE HANSON

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 3737 8731 3731 8738 3727 8739 3724 8743
          3736 8759 3755 8738 3742 8735

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 12:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Livingston	34 min
May 11, 12:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Webster	28 min
May 11, 12:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	32 min
May 11, 12:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins	29 min
May 11, 1:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean	30 min
May 11, 1:08 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean	37 min
May 11, 1:14 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	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.