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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 5, 2008, 6:49 PM CST for Wayne County, Illinois. It was in force for 26 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
- Feb 5, 2008, 6:49 PM CST (00:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 5, 2008, 7:15 PM CST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, IL
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 7:05 PM CST | FUNNEL CLOUD | Fairfield, IL | HIGHWAY 15 JUST WEST OF FAIRFIELD ILLINOIS. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 3:09 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 449 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 92 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 387 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 060048
TORPAH
ILC191-060115-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0021.080206T0049Z-080206T0115Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
649 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH KENTUCKY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS
* UNTIL 715 PM CST.
* AT 645 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF
JEFFERSONVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO MERRIAM...
KLINES CORNER...ENTERPRISE...TOMS PRAIRIE AND MOUNT ERIE.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3860 8815 3838 8815 3834 8848 3849 8859
3861 8831 3861 8816
TIME...MOT...LOC 0049Z 242DEG 60KT 3846 8840
$$1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KPAH 060058
SVSPAH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
657 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
ILC191-060115-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-080206T0115Z/
WAYNE IL-
657 PM CST TUE FEB 5 2008
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM CST FOR
NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS...
AT 656 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MOUNT ERIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN NEAR MOUNT ERIE AND OVER RURAL
AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.
WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.
LAT...LON 3861 8816 3860 8815 3858 8816 3858 8815
3847 8815 3845 8837 3854 8841 3861 8832
TIME...MOT...LOC 0057Z 241DEG 66KT 3855 8819
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 6:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jefferson | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 6:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jefferson, Wayne | 52 min |
| Feb 5, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 17 min |
| Feb 5, 6:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 31 min |
| Feb 5, 7:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 43 min |
| Feb 5, 7:18 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union, Williamson | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 7:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jackson, Jefferson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 7:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson, Williamson | 29 min |
| Feb 5, 8:01 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Johnson, Pope, Saline, Williamson | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 9:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Alexander, Pulaski | 23 min |
| Feb 5, 9:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pulaski | 13 min |
| Feb 5, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pope | 50 min |
| Feb 6, 12:32 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Wabash, White | 17 days |
| Feb 6, 12:37 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin | 17 days |
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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.