Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2009
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 2009, 5:36 PM CDT for Daviess County, McLean County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 min. 3 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
- Mar 28, 2009, 5:36 PM CDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2009, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Daviess County, KY, McLean County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 5:38 PM CDT | TORNADO | 7 Sw Owensboro, KY | SMALL ROPE TORNADO OCCASIONALLY LIFTING OFF THE GROUND MIDWAY BETWEEN CALHOUN AND OWENSBORO. |
| Mar 28, 5:42 PM CDT | HAIL 1 | Calhoun, KY | QUARTER SIZE HAIL. WIND GUST 55 MPH REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. |
| Mar 28, 5:46 PM CDT | HAIL 0.88 | Calhoun, KY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
Did it verify
Verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow matched one storm report to this tornado warning; the first came 2 minutes after it went out.
Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.
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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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 282236 TORPAH KYC059-149-282315- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0022.090328T2236Z-090328T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 536 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTH CENTRAL DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... EASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 615 PM CDT * AT 536 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR CALHOUN... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CALHOUN BY 545 PM CDT... 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LIVERMORE BY 550 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 3776 8718 3762 8698 3744 8718 3760 8736 TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 220DEG 27KT 3751 8733 $$
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Mar 28, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 28, 3:06 PM CDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 306 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 .DISCUSSION... A WARM FRONT LIFTING NORTH ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE QUAD STATE THIS AFTERNOON WILL BE FOLLOWED QUICKLY BY LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH BY EARLY EVENING. SEVERE STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF WEST KENTUCKY INTO SOUTHEAST ILLINOIS UNTIL THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE REGION...THUS A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THESE AREAS UNTIL 02Z. WRAP AROUND MOISTURE AND COLDER AIR FILTERING IN BEHIND THIS LOW WILL LEAD TO A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW BY LATE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT...WITH THE BEST CHANCES ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION. SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL PREVENT ANY SNOW ACCUMULATION...WITH LOWS IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. RAIN AND SNOW WILL LINGER INTO THE MORNING HOURS SUNDAY ACROSS OUR EASTERN COUNTIES...BUT NAM...GFS AND ECMWF ALL SHOW DRIER AIR AND SUNSHINE QUICKLY RETURNING BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. AS HIGH PRESSURE SLIDES TO OUR SOUTH...SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL QUICKLY RETURN BY LATE SUNDAY NIGHT...WITH A NICE WARM UP ON MONDAY. MONDAY NIGHT...ECMWF AND GFS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT BRINGING A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS INTO SOUTHWEST IOWA BY 12Z TUESDAY. SHOWERS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REGION MONDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE SOUTH HALF OF THE AREA. AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH ON TUESDAY...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE ACROSS MAINLY THE EASTERN HALF OF THE AREA. BY MID WEEK...THROUGH GFS AND ECMWF ARE NOT IN GREAT AGREEMENT...BOTH MODELS BRING A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS TOWARD THE GREAT LAKES REGION. THIS WILL PROVIDE ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. ECMWF LINGERS SOME QPF ACROSS THE REGION THURSDAY NIGHT...SO KEPT A CHANCE OF SHOWERS GOING THROUGH 12Z FRIDAY. FOR NEAR TERM TEMPERATURES...BASICALLY USED A MAV/MET BLEND. IN THE EXTENDED...STAYED WITHIN A COUPLE DEGREES EITHER SIDE OF LATEST MEX GUIDANCE. && .AVIATION... OCCLUDING WARM FRONT IS LIFTING NORTHEASTWARD ACROSS S IL/W KY ATTM WITH COLD FRONT FOLLOWING CLOSELY BEHIND. THE TIMING OF THE FRONT IS TRICKY AS IT HAS BEEN SLOWING OVER THE PAST FEW HOURS...PASSING BY KCGI ATTM. EXPECT IT TO REACH KOWB/KEVV IN THE 23-01Z TIME FRAME. WINDS VEER TO THE SOUTHEAST AHEAD OF IT THEN QUICKLY SHIFT TO THE SOUTHWEST BEHIND. THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW GUSTS ABOVE 30KTS BRIEFLY WITH THE FROPA. BEST CHANCE FOR SVR TSRA WILL BE ACROSS W KY EAST OF THE LAKES. CIGS WILL BE MAINLY IN THE MVFR RANGE THROUGH THE PERIOD. WRAPAROUND MOISTURE WILL MAINTAIN MVFR CIGS THROUGH TONIGHT WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN OR EVEN WET SNOW SHOWERS...BUT WITH LITTLE/NO ACCUMULATION. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. && PUBLIC...RST AVIATION...AD
Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 28, 5:30 PM CDT, 6 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 530 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-292230- JEFFERSON-WAYNE IL-EDWARDS-WABASH-PERRY IL-FRANKLIN-HAMILTON- WHITE-JACKSON-WILLIAMSON-SALINE-GALLATIN-UNION IL-JOHNSON-POPE- HARDIN-ALEXANDER-PULASKI-MASSAC-GIBSON-PIKE-POSEY-VANDERBURGH- WARRICK-SPENCER-FULTON-HICKMAN-CARLISLE-BALLARD-MCCRACKEN-GRAVES- LIVINGSTON-MARSHALL-CALLOWAY-CRITTENDEN-LYON-TRIGG-CALDWELL- UNION KY-WEBSTER-HOPKINS-CHRISTIAN-HENDERSON-DAVIESS-MCLEAN- MUHLENBERG-TODD-PERRY MO-BOLLINGER-CAPE GIRARDEAU-WAYNE MO-CARTER- RIPLEY-BUTLER-STODDARD-SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI-NEW MADRID- 530 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL EXIT THE PENNYRILE REGION OF WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM FOR THIS LINE OF STORMS. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL REMAIN A CONCERN WITH THIS LINE. AFTER MIDNIGHT...SOME WET SNOW IS EXPECTED AS MUCH COLDER AIR MOVES INTO THE REGION. SINCE TEMPERATURES WILL BE ABOVE FREEZING...NO ACCUMULATION IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION HAS BEEN REQUESTED IN THE TORNADO WATCH AREA. YORK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 28, 5:22 PM CDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
522 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0455 PM TSTM WND DMG HOPKINSVILLE 36.85N 87.49W
03/28/2009 CHRISTIAN KY CO-OP OBSERVER
DOWNED TREE ON SOUTH END OF TOWN. WIND GUSTS ESTIMATED AT
59 MPH.
&&
SMITTYLocal storm report, Mar 28, 5:23 PM CDT, 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
523 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0500 PM TSTM WND DMG 5 E OAK GROVE 36.67N 87.34W
03/28/2009 TODD KY EMERGENCY MNGR
SEMI-TRUCK PICKED UP AND TOSSED NEAR MILE MARKER 88 ON
I-24.
&&
ADLocal storm report, Mar 28, 5:26 PM CDT, 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
526 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0522 PM HAIL 2 N ELKTON 36.84N 87.16W
03/28/2009 M0.75 INCH TODD KY TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
&&
SMITTYLocal storm report, Mar 28, 5:28 PM CDT, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
528 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0515 PM HAIL MADISONVILLE 37.34N 87.51W
03/28/2009 M0.88 INCH HOPKINS KY TRAINED SPOTTER
NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR EXIT 44 ALONG CARROL
GENTRY ROAD. HAIL LASTED FROM 510 TO 515 PM.
&&
SMITTYLocal storm report, Mar 28, 5:29 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
529 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0526 PM FUNNEL CLOUD EVANSVILLE 37.98N 87.54W
03/28/2009 VANDERBURGH IN EMERGENCY MNGR
ROTATING FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED AT THE INTERSECTION OF
HIGHWAY 164 AND THE LOLYD EXPRESSWAY.
&&
SMITTYLocal storm report, Mar 28, 5:33 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
533 PM CDT SAT MAR 28 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0522 PM TSTM WND DMG APEX 37.10N 87.34W
03/28/2009 CHRISTIAN KY EMERGENCY MNGR
ROOF OF GARAGE DAMAGED. DIME TO NICKLE SIZE HAIL
ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORM.
&&
SMITTYThe 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, 3:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 28 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, 5:39 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 |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.