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Tornado Warning 49, NWS Paducah, KY

May 30, 2004New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 7:43 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 47 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 30, 2004, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County New Madrid County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:46 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.

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 30, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 30, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 3112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 741 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 182 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.7
Supercell composite: 13.9

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 310043
TORPAH
MOC143-310130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
742 PM CDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NEW MADRID COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 741 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NORTH   
  LILBOURN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE CATRON...HOWARDVILLE...LILBOURN...NEW
  MADRID...BADERSVILLE AND FARRENBURG

THIS IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS 
PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM

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 3661 8978 3662 8971 3664 8971 3677 8948
          3663 8936 3658 8941 3658 8951 3648 8973

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 7:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi, New Madrid	49 min
May 30, 8:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Mississippi	45 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.