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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY

May 26, 2004Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 11:41 AM CDT for Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 49 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2004, 11:41 AM CDT (16:41 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2004, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hardin County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:40 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 26, 11:50 AM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Karbers Ridge, IL
May 26, 11:50 AM CDT	HAIL 0.75	Karbers Ridge, IL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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 26, 8:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 289 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 261641
TORPAH
ILC069-261730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1140 AM CDT WED MAY 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  HARDIN COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS

* UNTIL 1230 PM CDT

* AT 1135 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER KARBERS
  RIDGE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SHAWNEETOWN...MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE GROSS

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 3762 8849 3751 8833 3749 8817 3757 8815

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 7:31 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Hamilton, White	119 min
May 25, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson	34 min
May 25, 10:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pope	49 min
May 26, 9:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jefferson	36 min
May 26, 9:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Wayne	46 min
May 26, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Williamson	45 min
May 26, 10:19 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	White	41 min
May 26, 10:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	41 min
May 26, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	36 min
May 26, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Williamson	45 min
May 26, 11:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Saline	63 min
May 26, 11:23 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Saline	37 min
May 26, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Perry	38 min
May 26, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	29 min
May 26, 2:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin	83 min
May 26, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Hamilton, Saline	50 min
May 26, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gallatin	37 min
May 26, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	33 min
May 26, 4:00 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gallatin, Saline	2 hr
May 26, 4:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac	41 min
May 26, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Wayne	29 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.