Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 4:12 PM CDT for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 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, 2007, 4:12 PM CDT (21:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2007, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Daviess County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 611 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 678 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KPAH 182112
TORPAH
KYC059-182130-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0013.071018T2112Z-071018T2130Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
412 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 430 PM CDT.
* AT 408 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES
NORTHWEST OF KNOTTSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE IMPACT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
INDICATED COUNTY.
NOW IS THE TIME TO IMPLEMENT YOUR TORNADO PLAN OF ACTION. SEEK
SHELTER INDOORS IN A BASEMENT...OR IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL
MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
LAT...LON 3788 8688 3785 8689 3780 8681 3778 8682
3771 8694 3785 8706 3788 8705 3792 8697
TIME...MOT...LOC 2112Z 234DEG 35KT 3784 8691
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 42 min |
| Oct 18, 3:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 44 min |
| Oct 18, 10:03 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Oct 18, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 20 min |
| Oct 18, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 25 min |
| Oct 18, 4:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, McLean, Webster | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 41 min |
| Oct 18, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 32 min |
| Oct 18, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, McLean, Webster | 15 min |
| Oct 18, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Hickman | 40 min |
| Oct 18, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken | 51 min |
| Oct 18, 5:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 47 min |
| Oct 18, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves | 37 min |
| Oct 18, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 45 min |
| Oct 18, 6:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 57 min |
| Oct 18, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston | 48 min |
| Oct 18, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 41 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.