Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2009, 3:47 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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
- Mar 28, 2009, 3:47 PM CDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2009, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Crittenden County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 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 282047 TORPAH KYC055-282115- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0013.090328T2047Z-090328T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 347 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT * AT 347 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MARION... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... MARION BY 355 PM CDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 3745 8805 3735 8794 3727 8813 3732 8818 TIME...MOT...LOC 2048Z 232DEG 23KT 3731 8811 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KPAH 282111 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 411 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 KYC055-282121- /O.EXP.KPAH.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-090328T2115Z/ CRITTENDEN KY- 411 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL CRITTENDEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL EXPIRE AT 415 PM CDT... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE TORNADO WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF CRITTENDEN COUNTY. THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3745 8805 3735 8794 3727 8813 3732 8818 TIME...MOT...LOC 2111Z 232DEG 23KT 3740 8796 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston, Marshall | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 3:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union | 22 min |
| Mar 28, 4:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Trigg | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 29 min |
| Mar 28, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 42 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 23 min |
| Mar 28, 4:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 53 min |
| Mar 28, 4:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Webster | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 27 min |
| Mar 28, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 48 min |
| Mar 28, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 51 min |
| Mar 28, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Todd | 15 min |
| Mar 28, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 17 min |
| Mar 28, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.