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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Paducah, KY

April 25, 2003Marshall County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2003, 4:12 PM CDT for Marshall 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: Apr 25, 2003, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired: Apr 25, 2003, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Marshall County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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
Apr 25, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -232 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 656 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 296 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.

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 252112
TORPAH
KYC157-252145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
411 PM CDT FRI APR 25 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM CDT

* AT 405 PM CDT...SPOTTERS OBSERVED A FUNNEL CLOUD OVER              
  DRAFFENVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF CALVERT CITY...MOVING     
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

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 3687 8836 3697 8849 3701 8849 3704 8845
          3706 8839 3705 8831 3695 8823

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 10:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	26 min
Apr 25, 12:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Lyon	20 min
Apr 25, 9:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway	47 min
Apr 25, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McCracken	44 min
Apr 25, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Marshall	29 min
Apr 25, 4:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Lyon	43 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.