Alert archive / Missouri / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 2004, 5:54 PM CDT for Butler County, Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 51 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 24, 2004, 5:54 PM CDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2004, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Butler County, MO, Ripley County, MO
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 24, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 535 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 255 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 243 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
955
WUUS53 KPAH 242254
SVRPAH
MOC023-181-242345-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
554 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
EASTERN RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI
* UNTIL 645 PM CDT
* AT 554 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTHWEST OF NAYLOR...OR ABOUT 9 MILES
EAST OF DONIPHAN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE HARVIELL AND POPLAR BLUFF
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. TAKE COVER. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE A TORNADO WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. A BASEMENT
OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY STRUCTURE
OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION.
DIME SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM SIX MILES WEST OF
NAYLOR. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
LAT...LON 3667 9070 3661 9069 3651 9070 3669 9022
3691 9047
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 51 min |
| Apr 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 46 min |
| Apr 24, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Perry | 38 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.