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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

May 29, 2004Graves County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 29, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT for Graves 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: May 29, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 2004, 9:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Graves County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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: 1471 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 975 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

359 
WFUS53 KPAH 300215
TORPAH
KYC083-300245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
915 PM CDT SAT MAY 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 945 PM CDT

* AT 912 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER MAYFIELD...
  OR ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MAYFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
RURAL GRAVES COUNTY AT 930 PM CDT BETWEEN GOLO AND FARMINGTON.

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 3675 8870 3681 8855 3684 8849 3670 8849
          3663 8850 3660 8861

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 7:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton	25 min
May 29, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hickman	50 min
May 29, 8:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves	40 min
May 29, 9:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	63 min
May 30, 12:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McCracken	29 min
May 30, 12:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Livingston	25 min
May 30, 12:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	63 min
May 30, 1:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	43 min
May 30, 1:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, Webster	66 min
May 30, 1:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell	58 min
May 30, 2:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Todd	13 min
May 30, 2:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean	35 min
May 30, 2:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, Muhlenberg	63 min
May 30, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	50 min
May 30, 3:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess	42 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.