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Tornado Warning 71, NWS Paducah, KY

August 22, 2003Calloway County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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: Aug 22, 2003, 8:45 PM CDT (01:45 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2003, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Calloway County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:48 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 2889 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 230145
TORPAH
KYC035-230215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
845 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CALLOWAY COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 843 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER HARRIS
  GROVE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MURRAY...MOVING SOUTH AT 20
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
RURAL CALLOWAY COUNTY AT 900 PM CDT

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE TAYLORS STORE AND HARRIS GROVE

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 3668 8833 3664 8849 3650 8849 3650 8827

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 7:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian	25 min
Aug 22, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Trigg	42 min
Aug 22, 7:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Marshall	35 min
Aug 22, 7:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian	2 hr
Aug 22, 8:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	30 min
Aug 22, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves	53 min
Aug 22, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hickman	45 min
Aug 22, 9:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	34 min

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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.