Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2004, 7:24 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Cape Girardeau County, Perry County, Missouri. It was in force for 66 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 24, 2004, 7:24 PM CDT (00:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:38 PM CDT | HAIL 0.75 | 8 Sw Marble Hill, MO |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 6:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 306 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
434
WFUS53 KPAH 250024
TORPAH
MOC017-031-157-250130-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
723 PM CDT SAT APR 24 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
* UNTIL 830 PM CDT
* AT 717 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION OVER ZALMA...OR ABOUT 8
MILES WEST OF ADVANCE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG
ROTATING STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARBLE HILL...AND A THIRD NEAR
SILVER LAKE.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BROWNFIELD...ALLENVILLE...BUFORDVILLE...
FROHNA...GLENALLEN...GORDONVILLE...JACKSON...LITHIUM...LONGTOWN...
MARBLE HILL...MILLERSVILLE...OAK RIDGE...OLD APPLETON...PATTON...
PATTON JUNCTION...PERRYVILLE...POCAHONTAS...SEDGEWICKVILLE...SILVER
LAKE AND WHITEWATER
THE TORNADO WARNINGS FOR PERRY AND BOLLINGER COUNTIES IN MISSOURI
HAVE BEEN EXTENDED.
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 3785 9014 3708 9011 3727 8960 3751 8952
3792 8975
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Stoddard, Wayne | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 7:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 3 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 3 hr |
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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.