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Tornado Warning 58, NWS Paducah, KY

April 30, 2006New Madrid County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 30, 2006, 6:46 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Missouri. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 30, 2006, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2006, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 59 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), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 30, 3:05 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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: 20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 72 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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 Apr 30, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 3:30 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
330 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT)...

LOTS GOING ON TODAY...THEREFORE WILL BE BRIEF.  MAIN CONCERN
CONTINUES TO BE POPS THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK.

HAVE A NARROW WEDGE OF UNSTABLE SURFACE AIR ACROSS THE REGION LATE
THIS AFTERNOON...AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI.  EXPECT THAT THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE EASTWARD
THROUGH THE UNSTABLE WEDGE AND ULTIMATELY BECOME ELEVATED AS THEY
WORK EASTWARD TOWARD THE WABASH VALLEY AND THE LAKES AREA IN WEST
KENTUCKY.  WIND FIELDS ARE VEERING PRETTY WELL IN THE LOW
LEVELS...BUT GENERALLY ARE WEAK.  MAY SEE SOME ENHANCED TORNADO WEST
OF THE MISSISSIPPI WHERE SURFACE WINDS ARE BACKED MORE TO THE SOUTH
SOUTHEAST.  HOWEVER...STILL FEEL THAT LARGE HAIL IS THE PRIMARY
CONCERN TONIGHT.

THE 12Z GFS ROTATES ONE MID-LEVEL SHORT WAVE TROUGH NORTHEAST
THROUGH NORTHWESTERN ZONES THIS EVENING...AND THEN PUSHES A STRONGER
ONE THROUGH THE AREA LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT.  WILL GO WITH
LIKELY POPS TONIGHT WITH FOCUS IN NORTHWEST ZONES.  FAR SOUTHEAST
ZONES WILL HAVE ONLY GOOD CHANCE POP TONIGHT.

THE 12Z GFS CONTINUES TO LIFT THE CLOSED LOW NORTHWARD FROM THE
UPPER MIDWEST INTO SOUTHERN CANADA...AS ANOTHER SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM
EMERGES ONTO THE NORTHERN HIGH PLAINS LATE MONDAY NIGHT.  AS THE
INITIAL UPPER LOW LIFTS NORTHWARD SOME OF THE ENERGY WILL PUSH EAST
ACROSS THE AREA AS AN OPEN WAVE LATE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT.  THERE
WILL LIKELY BE ANOTHER WEAK SURFACE BOUNDARY ACCOMPANYING IT THROUGH
THE AREA...SO HAVE RAISED POPS TO LIKELY MONDAY NIGHT...BUT KEPT
CHANCE POPS FOR MONDAY.  ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH A RATHER STRONG ZONAL MID-LEVEL JET MOVING THROUGH THE
REGION MONDAY NIGHT.  HAIL AND WIND WOULD BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS.

TUESDAY WILL HAVE A LINGERING LOW POP...BUT WILL LIKELY BE DRY...AND
LIKEWISE FOR TUESDAY NIGHT.  THE SECOND MID/UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL
RIDE EASTWARD ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER...EVENTUALLY DRAGGING A COLD
FRONT THROUGH THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT.  WILL SPREAD CHANCE POPS
ACROSS THE AREA FOR BOTH PERIODS.  SEVERE WEATHER MAY ONCE AGAIN BE
A PROBLEM.

GENERALLY FOLLOWED THE WARMER MET GUIDANCE FOR TEMPERATURES THROUGH
TUESDAY...BUT WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE IT BE CONSIDERABLY
WARMER IF THE SUNSHINE DEVELOPS AS EXPECTED.  TRENDED TOWARD THE
MAV/MEX FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST.

&&

.LONG TERM (THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY)...

AS A STACKED LOW MOVES ACROSS SRN CANADA DURING MIDWEEK...COOL HIGH
PRESSURE WRAPPING AROUND ITS BACKSIDE IS PROGGED TO SWEEP INTO THE
OHIO RIVER VALLEY BY 12Z THU OR SO...BEHIND A COLD FRONT. SOME
UNCERTAINTLY EXISTS AS TO EXACTLY HOW THIS WILL EVOLVE. EVEN WITH
THE FRONT POSSIBLY TO THE SE OF THE PAH FCST AREA THU MORNING...
ACCORDING TO THE GFS AND ECMWF AT LEAST...THERE WILL STILL BE A CHC
OF SHWS/TSTMS IN THE FCST FOR THU THROUGH 00Z SAT. THIS WILL BE DUE
TO MULTIPLE PERTUBATIONS IN THE TEMPORARILY ZONAL MID LEVEL FLOW
TAPPING RESIDUAL ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE AS THEY MOVE EAST. A VIGOROUS
MID LEVEL SHRTWV IS PROGGED TO SWEEP SE INTO THE MIDWEST TOWARD THE
WEEKEND AND HELP TO PUSH MORE SFC HIGH PRESSURE INTO THE AREA AND
PUT AN END TO THE PCPN BY FRI EVE. SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL DOMINATE
FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEKEND...AND TEMPS SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY
BELOW NORMAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR.

&&

.PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
KY...NONE.
MO...NONE.
IL...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&

DRS/DB

Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
405 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087-
100-107>112-114-011000-
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-
405 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM...ROUGHLY WEST OF A FULTON
KENTUCKY TO GOLCONDA AND FAIRFIELD ILLINOIS LINE. NUMEROUS STORMS
WILL MOVE EAST THROUGH THE WATCH AREA. THE MAIN CONCERN WILL BE
LARGE HAIL...BUT AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR SEVERE WIND GUST WILL ALSO BE
POSSIBLE. THE STORMS SHOULD WEAKEN CONSIDERABLY AFTER 9 PM...AS THEY
PUSH EAST OF THE WATCH AREA...TOWARD MORE STABLE AIR.

MORE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER THE
WESTERN HALF OF THE AREA LATER TONIGHT...BUT SEVERE WEATHER IS
NOT ANTICIPATED AT THAT TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE AREA MONDAY
THROUGH TUESDAY. THE BEST CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE MONDAY
NIGHT AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION. LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE THE PRIMARY CONCERNS.

THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.
SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND
EARLY THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

IF NOT ALREADY ACTIVE...SPOTTERS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED
FOR ACTIVATION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SPOTTERS THROUGHOUT
THE AREA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR ACTIVATION MONDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

DRS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 30, 5:46 PM CDT, 1 hour before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
546 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

0540 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     BELL CITY               37.02N 89.82W
04/30/2006                   STODDARD           MO   PUBLIC

            REPORTED JUST SOUTH AND WEST OF BELL CITY. FUNNEL CLOUD
            NEARING GROUND. TWO PUBLIC REPORTS RELAYED TO LAW
            ENFORCEMENT.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Apr 30, 5:49 PM CDT, 57 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
549 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

0547 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     2 W DEXTER              36.79N 90.00W
04/30/2006                   STODDARD           MO   PUBLIC

            REPORTS RELAYED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT. OTHER REPORTS OF
            FUNNEL CLOUD BETWEEN DEXTER AND SIKESTON AT INTERSECTION
            OF HIGHWAYS 60 AND N.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Apr 30, 5:54 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
554 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

0550 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     GRAYRIDGE               36.82N 89.78W
04/30/2006                   STODDARD           MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            EVENT OCCURRED ALONG HIGHWAY 60. VERY BRIEF TOUCHDOWN.
            FUNNEL CLOUD MOVING EAST NORTHEAST TOWARD SCOTT COUNTY.
            GOLFBALL HAIL REPORTED WITH STORM ALSO. EVENT RELAYED TO
            EMERGENCY MANAGER.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:19 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
619 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

0610 PM     TSTM WND DMG     COBDEN                  37.53N 89.25W
04/30/2006                   UNION              IL   BROADCAST MEDIA

            DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:25 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
625 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

0605 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 N COBDEN              37.59N 89.25W
04/30/2006                   UNION              IL   BROADCAST MEDIA

            TREES DOWN AND ONE HOME DAMAGED. UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF
            FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR THE SAME AREA.

&&

SMITTY

Local storm report, Apr 30, 6:35 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
635 PM CDT SUN APR 30 2006

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

0630 PM     HAIL             1 E SIKESTON            36.88N 89.56W
04/30/2006  M0.75 INCH       SCOTT              MO   TRAINED SPOTTER

            EVENT OCCURRED ON THE SCOTT/NEW MADRID COUNTY LINE NEAR
            INTERSECTION OF INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS 57 AND 55.

&&

SMITTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 29, 10:10 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 11 more	6 hr
Apr 30, 3:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Perry	61 min
Apr 30, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson	55 min
Apr 30, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Jackson, Union	54 min
Apr 30, 5:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Alexander	37 min
Apr 30, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Pulaski	50 min
Apr 30, 6:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Johnson, Williamson	45 min
Apr 30, 10:47 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Mississippi	28 min
Apr 30, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	36 min
Apr 30, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Carter, Ripley	44 min
Apr 30, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry	47 min
Apr 30, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ripley	82 min
Apr 30, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Carter, Wayne	76 min
Apr 30, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	49 min
Apr 30, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	62 min
Apr 30, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	42 min
Apr 30, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler, Ripley	62 min
Apr 30, 4:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Bollinger	14 min
Apr 30, 4:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Scott	61 min
Apr 30, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Cape Girardeau	48 min
Apr 30, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Stoddard	46 min
Apr 30, 5:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Scott	38 min
Apr 30, 5:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Butler	47 min
Apr 30, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard	44 min
Apr 30, 6:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	61 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.