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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT for Henderson County, McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 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 18, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2007, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Henderson County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 5:50 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Beech Grove, KY | LATE REPORT...WIND DAMAGE IN BEECH GROVE. 12 TO 15 FARM BUILDINGS DAMAGED WITH 6 TO 8 BARNS DESTROYED. ONE HOME RECEIVED HEAVY DAMAGE. IN LIVERMOORE A TREE FELL ACROSS ONE HOME. WIDESPREAD DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES COUNTY WIDE. TIME ESTIMATED. |
| Oct 18, 5:52 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Dixon, KY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 182245
TORPAH
KYC101-149-233-182300-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0021.071018T2245Z-071018T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
545 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
NORTHWESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
EASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT.
* AT 543 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES EAST OF
DIXON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SEBREE...
ROBARDS AND BEECH GROVE.
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 3743 8765 3757 8778 3778 8748 3771 8739
3769 8741 3767 8738 3761 8725 3755 8737
3756 8740
TIME...MOT...LOC 2245Z 236DEG 47KT 3756 8757
$$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, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 18 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, 5:50 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 |
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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.