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Tornado Warning 76, NWS Paducah, KY

October 26, 2004Scott County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 26, 2004, 5:09 PM CDT for Scott County, Missouri. It was in force for 36 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: Oct 26, 2004, 5:09 PM CDT (22:09 UTC)
Expired: Oct 26, 2004, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scott County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 26, 5:16 PM CDT	TORNADO	4 W Commerce, MO	TORNADO REPORTED CROSSING INTERSTATE 55.
Oct 26, 5:22 PM CDT	TORNADO	New Hamburg, MO	UNSPECIFIED DAMAGE REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY OF NEW HAMBURG. UPDATE AT 535 PM...ROOFS...ELECTIC POLES DOWN AND BARNS DAMAGED THROUGHOUT COMMUNITY. NO REPORTS OF INJURIES.

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

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 259 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: 891 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 262209
TORPAH
MOC201-262245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
509 PM CDT TUE OCT 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT

* AT 505 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR          
  CHAFFEE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE BENTON...KELSO...ORAN AND SCOTT CITY

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 3707 8970 3707 8972 3717 8971 3719 8969
      3719 8965 3722 8962 3725 8947 3722 8948
      3714 8944 3709 8938 3704 8938

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 26, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau	43 min
Oct 26, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.