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Tornado Warning 10, NWS Paducah, KY

March 9, 2006Posey County, Vanderburgh County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 9, 2006, 1:37 PM CST for Posey County, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. It was in force for 38 min. 3 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: Mar 9, 2006, 1:37 PM CST (19:37 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2006, 2:15 PM CST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Posey County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 9, 2:00 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 59	Evansville, IN	PEA SIZE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL RAINS REPORTED WITH WIND GUSTS.
Mar 9, 2:02 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 65	3 N Evansville, IN
Mar 9, 2:05 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	Evansville, IN	REPORTED NEAR INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 164 AND GREEN RIVER ROAD.

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

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this tornado warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 9, 12:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 271 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 287 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KPAH 091937
TORPAH
INC129-163-092015-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0010.060309T1937Z-060309T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
137 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  POSEY COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA.
  VANDERBURGH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA.

* UNTIL 215 PM CST.

* AT 130 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
  NEAR MOUNT VERNON...OR ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARMI...MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  BLAIRSVILLE...KASSON...EVANSVILLE...DARMSTADT AND MELODY HILL

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT 
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

LAT...LON 3799 8803 3789 8795 3797 8760 3794 8746
      3813 8748

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KPAH 092002
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
200 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006

INC129-092010-
/O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-060309T2015Z/
POSEY IN-
200 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR POSEY COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING 
FOR SOUTHEASTERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. 

LAT...LON 3806 8771 3795 8770 3797 8760 3794 8746
      3813 8748

$$

INC163-092015-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0010.000000T0000Z-060309T2015Z/
VANDERBURGH IN-
200 PM CST THU MAR 9 2006

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM CST FOR
VANDERBURGH COUNTY...

AT 155 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED ROTATION AT ST. 
PHILIP...ALONG WITH WIND GUSTS NEAR 50 MPH. THIS POTENTIAL TORNADO 
WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

LAT...LON 3806 8771 3795 8770 3797 8760 3794 8746
      3813 8748

$$

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Mar 9, 5:10 AM CST, 8 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 5:10 AM CST, 8 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
510 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

THE ITEM DESERVING ATTENTION TODAY IS THE VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM
APPROACHING THE PAH FCST AREA...AND ITS POTENTIAL EFFECTS.

A WAVE OF WARM SECTOR CONVECTION MOVED ACROSS MOST OF THE REGION
OVERNIGHT TO THE SE OF A SFC LOW MOVING TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES. SOME
STORMS HAD HIGH WIND POTENTIAL IN SERN MO FOR AWHILE...BUT AS THE
LOW MOVED RAPIDLY NORTHEAST...THE INTENSITY OF THE CONVECTION
GRADUALLY DIMINISHED. SINCE LATE YESTERDAY SOME PARTS OF SERN
MO...SRN IL...AND SWRN IN RECEIVED IN EXCESS OF 3 INCHES OF
RAINFALL...AND THERE WERE SOME SPOTTY MINOR FLOODING REPORTS
OVERNIGHT.

THE MODELS INDICATE THAT...AFTER A POSSIBLE MORNING LULL FOR MAINLY
THE ERN SECTOR...SHWS AND TSTMS WILL BECOME NUMEROUS ONCE AGAIN IN
THE AFTN. A NEGATIVELY TILTED MID LEVEL TROF...100 PLUS KNOT UPPER
JET...STRONG ENVIRONMENTAL WINDS...AND A SFC TROF ARE EXPECTED TO
PROVIDE PLENTIFUL MOISTURE...INSTABILITY...AND WIND SHEAR FOR SVR
TSTM ACTIVITY TODAY AS THE SYSTEM DIGS THROUGH THE SRN PLAINS AND
LIFTS RAPIDLY NE. WIND DAMAGE AND TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE...ALONG
WITH LARGE HAIL. SEE SWODY1 FOR DETAILS. WITH THE AFOREMENTIONED
EARLIER RAINFALL AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAIN TODAY...IT WAS
DECIDED THAT A FLOOD WATCH WAS JUSTIFIED FOR ROUGHLY THE NWRN HALF
OF THE FCST AREA UNTIL THE WORST IS OVER TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY
WAS CONSIDERED BUT IT WAS THOUGHT THAT THE COPIOUS CLOUDNESS AND
RAIN MAY LIMIT THE WINDS ALOFT FROM TRANSLATING TO THE SFC THAT MUCH
/EXCEPT IN TSTMS/. HOWEVER...IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT OF CLOUD BREAKS
ESPECIALLY IN THE SERN SECTOR...WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA COULD BE MET
THERE.

FRI SHOULD BE A COOL DRY DAY IN THE WAKE OF THE DEPARTING SYSTEM.
THE NEXT MID LEVEL SHRTWV TROF TO AFFECT THE AREA WAS DEPICTED
DIFFERENTLY BY THE 00Z NAM/GFS BUT LOOKED QUITE SIMILAR FOR THE 06Z
RUN. SO...BY FRI NITE THERE WILL BE A SMALL CHC OF CONVECTION. POPS
WILL INCREASE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND LINGER INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AS
SW TO NE MID LEVEL FLOW AND PERSISTENT MOIST LOW LEVEL FLOW
DOMINATES. MADE VERY FEW CHANGES AFT DAY4.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...NONE.
MO...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES XCP NEW MADRID AND MISSISSIPPI
THROUGH 06Z FRI.
IL...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES XCP MASSAC...POPE...AND HARDIN
THROUGH 06Z FRI.
IN...FLOOD WATCH FOR ALL COUNTIES XCP WARRICK AND SPENCER
THROUGH 06Z FRI.
&&

DB

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 9, 4:17 AM CST, 9 hours 20 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
417 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-101100-
JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON-
WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE-
HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH-
WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES-
LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL-
UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN-
MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER-
RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID-
417 AM CST THU MAR 9 2006

...RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST
MISSOURI.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE ENTIRE FOUR
STATE AREA TODAY AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE
OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY FROM
MIDDAY THROUGH EARLY EVENING.

ADDITIONALLY...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA
THROUGH THIS EVENING. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS POSSIBLE AS SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST TO TRACK ACROSS AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY
RECEIVED APPRECIABLE RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY

THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH THE
MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. VERY LITTLE CHANGE IS EXPECTED IN THE UPPER
AIR WIND FLOW PATTERN. AS A RESULT...THERE WILL BE A CONTINUED
CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE PERIOD.
HEAVY RAINFALL WILL REMAIN A POSSIBILITY AS WELL.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:08 PM CST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
108 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1227 PM     TSTM WND DMG     OLIVE BRANCH            37.17N 89.35W
03/09/2006                   ALEXANDER          IL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            UPDATED INFORMATION. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT
            COMMUNITY. ROOF DAMAGE REPORTED AND POWER POLES SNAPPED
            HALF WAY UP. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF PEA SIZE HAIL.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:09 PM CST, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
109 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1255 PM     TSTM WND DMG     CAIRO                   37.00N 89.18W
03/09/2006                   ALEXANDER          IL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SEVERAL TREES DAMAGED.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:12 PM CST, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
112 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1259 PM     FLASH FLOOD      GOLDEN GATE             38.36N 88.21W
03/09/2006                   WAYNE              IL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            LITTLE WABASH RIVER RIVER IS OUT OF ITS BANKS AND RISING.
            WATER OVER SECONDARY ROADS. ALL DRAINAGE DITCHES OUT OF
            BANKS. TWO INCHES OF RAINFALL IN PAST TWO HOURS.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:19 PM CST, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
119 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0114 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     RIDGWAY                 37.80N 88.26W
03/09/2006                   GALLATIN           IL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR RIDGWAY.

0114 PM     FLASH FLOOD      HARRISBURG              37.74N 88.55W
03/09/2006                   SALINE             IL   EMERGENCY MNGR

            FLASH FLOODING NOW OCCURING IN HARRISBURG...EAST
            HARRISBURG...AND NORTH HARRISBURG. DITCHES ARE FULL AND
            OVERFLOWING ONTO ROADWAYS.

0114 PM     HAIL             RIDGWAY                 37.80N 88.26W
03/09/2006  E0.88 INCH       GALLATIN           IL   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PS

Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:22 PM CST, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
122 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0110 PM     FLASH FLOOD      HARRISBURG              37.74N 88.55W
03/09/2006                   SALINE             IL   TRAINED SPOTTER

            DRAINAGE DITCHES OUT OF BANKS AND OVERFILLING ONTO
            ROADWAYS REPORTED THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Mar 9, 1:25 PM CST, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
125 PM CST THU MAR 09 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0124 PM     TSTM WND DMG     RIDGWAY                 37.80N 88.26W
03/09/2006                   GALLATIN           IL   AIRPLANE PILOT

            DOWNED POWER POLES REPORTED IN VARIOUS PARTS OF COUNTY.

&&

SMITTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 1:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Posey	35 min
Mar 9, 1:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	4 hr
Mar 9, 2:04 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Warrick	26 min
Mar 9, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	37 min

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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.