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Tornado Warning 69, NWS Paducah, KY

July 21, 2003Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 21, 2003, 1:57 PM CDT for Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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: Jul 21, 2003, 1:57 PM CDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2003, 2:30 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Todd 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
Jul 21, 11:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 1467 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -175 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 117 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

402 
WFUS53 KPAH 211857
TORPAH
KYC219-211930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
157 PM CDT MON JUL 21 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TODD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 230 PM CDT

* AT 152 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  ELKTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION SEEK SHELTER...BY MOVING INTO A
BASEMENT...OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING.
ABANDON MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3693 8730 3676 8733 3670 8707 3687 8706

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 9:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	32 min
Jul 21, 12:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess	4 hr
Jul 21, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	45 min
Jul 21, 1:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	46 min
Jul 21, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	34 min
Jul 21, 1:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Todd	30 min
Jul 21, 3:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	41 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.