Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2008
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 8, 2008, 3:05 PM CST for Carlisle County, Hickman County, Kentucky. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report 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
- Jan 8, 2008, 3:05 PM CST (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2008, 3:24 PM CST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carlisle County, KY, Hickman County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:10 PM CST | FUNNEL CLOUD | 1 S Clinton, KY | FUNNEL CLOUD WAS ROTATING AT TIME THAT IT WAS OBSERVED. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KPAH 082105
TORPAH
KYC039-105-082145-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0002.080108T2105Z-080108T2145Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
305 PM CST TUE JAN 8 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CARLISLE COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
HICKMAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 345 PM CST.
* AT 301 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR SOUTH
COLUMBUS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO NEW
CYPRESS...WATTS STATION...NICHOLS...OLD CYPRESS...BARDWELL...
MILBURN...KIRBYTON...MAGEE SPRINGS...CUNNINGHAM AND KALER.
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 3671 8919 3676 8915 3677 8912 3680 8913
3693 8901 3692 8899 3694 8896 3696 8882
3666 8883 3659 8900
TIME...MOT...LOC 2105Z 224DEG 51KT 3676 8900
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KPAH 082124 RRA
SVSPAH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
324 PM CST TUE JAN 8 2008
KYC039-105-082134-
/O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080108T2145Z/
CARLISLE KY-HICKMAN KY-
324 PM CST TUE JAN 8 2008
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HICKMAN AND CARLISLE COUNTIES IN WESTERN
KENTUCKY IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 3671 8919 3676 8915 3677 8912 3680 8913
3693 8901 3692 8899 3694 8896 3696 8882
3666 8883 3659 8900
TIME...MOT...LOC 2124Z 224DEG 51KT 3695 8877
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves | 33 min |
| Jan 8, 3:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 36 min |
| Jan 8, 3:30 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 30 min |
| Jan 8, 3:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 39 min |
| Jan 8, 3:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 35 min |
| Jan 8, 4:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Lyon | 38 min |
| Jan 8, 4:12 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 48 min |
| Jan 8, 5:08 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 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.