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Tornado Warning 113, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 22, 2006, 7:53 PM CDT for Butler County, Missouri. It was in force for 49 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
- Sep 22, 2006, 7:53 PM CDT (00:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 22, 2006, 8:42 PM CDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Butler County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:22 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Qulin, MO | DIME SIZED HAIL WAS ALSO REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. |
| Sep 22, 8:38 PM CDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 S Qulin, MO | FUNNEL CLOUD SIGHTED JUST OFF HWY 53... 1 MILE SOUTH OF QULIN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 1:16 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 2310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 342 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 14.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KPAH 230055 TORPAH MOC023-230200- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0113.060923T0053Z-060923T0200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 753 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. * UNTIL 900 PM CDT. * AT 750 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 18 MILES SOUTHWEST OF QULIN...NEAR CORNING....MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... NEAR QULIN BY 815 PM CDT. IN ADDITION TO A TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AND 70 MPH WINDS. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE INDOORS...AND TAKE SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES. IF CAUGHT IN THE OPEN...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. LAT...LON 3652 9058 3650 9057 3650 9025 3663 9016 $$ RP/MY
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KPAH 230142 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 842 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 MOC023-230152- /O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0113.000000T0000Z-060923T0200Z/ BUTLER MO- 842 PM CDT FRI SEP 22 2006 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI IS CANCELLED... THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. LAT...LON 3652 9058 3650 9057 3650 9025 3663 9016 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 22, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 53 min |
| Sep 22, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 62 min |
| Sep 22, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 53 min |
| Sep 22, 9:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 56 min |
| Sep 22, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 51 min |
| Sep 22, 10:27 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 3 hr |
| Sep 22, 10:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 43 min |
| Sep 23, 1:05 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 6 hr |
| Sep 23, 1:50 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley, Stoddard | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 5:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 8:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 30 min |
| Sep 23, 9:00 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 4 hr |
| Sep 23, 9:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 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.