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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Paducah, KY

October 18, 2004Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2004, 8:13 PM CDT for Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 62 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: Oct 18, 2004, 8:13 PM CDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2004, 9:15 PM CDT
In force: 62 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), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:15 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Oct 18, 5:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 216 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: 501 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 627 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 558 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 651 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 16.3

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 190113
TORPAH
ILC069-190215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
812 PM CDT MON OCT 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM CDT

* AT 809 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG ROTATION 7 MILES WEST OF EICHORN...
  OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTH OF HARRISBURG...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE ELIZABETHTOWN...GROSS...FINNEYVILLE...
  HICKS...LAMB...PETERS CREEK AND ROCK CREEK.

NOW IS THE TIME TO TAKE ACTION THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF 
PRODUCING TORNADIC DAMAGE. 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 3758 8841 3747 8842 3744 8834 3748 8811
      3755 8811

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 7:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Jackson	96 min
Oct 18, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Johnson	53 min
Oct 18, 7:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Pope, Saline	3 hr
Oct 18, 7:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Pope	64 min
Oct 18, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Saline	61 min
Oct 18, 9:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Franklin	22 min
Oct 18, 9:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Franklin	2 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.