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Tornado Warning 52, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Dec 31, 2010, 2:29 PM CST for Butler County, Stoddard County, Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 31, 2010, 2:29 PM CST (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 31, 2010, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 11:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 481 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 360 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
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 Dec 31, 12:36 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 12:36 PM CST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1236 PM CST FRI DEC 31 2010 .DISCUSSION... APPROACHING LINE OF CONVECTION TO ENCOUNTER AS FORECAST 500J SURFACE BASED CAPES WITH SURFACE LI'S TO ZERO/-1 AS WELL AS EXISTENT ELEVATED INSTABILITY. PROBLEM IS FRONT IS OCCLUDING ON ITS MOVE EASTWARD AND WITH TIME WILL LOSE WHAT MARGINAL SURFACE/LOW LAYER INSTABILITY THERE IS. STILL IMPRESSIVE WIND FIELDS MEAN THERE WILL BE PM THREAT FOR SVR/DAMAGING WINDS AND WITH HELICITYS SUPPORTIVE OF TOR INCLUSION WE REMAIN UNDER TOR WATCH TIL 01Z WRN 1/2 FA. ANTICIPATE TRANSLATION TO MORE OF RAIN EVENT OVERNIGHT WITH POPS SPIKING ERN 1/2 FA AND LOSING SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY AND EVEN SOME OF THE ELEVATED INSTABILITY. WE'LL SEE HOW THIS PLAYS OUT THOUGH INSOFAR AS IF THIS WILL OCCUR EVENING OR OVERNIGHT AS SOME DISCUSSION OF EASTWARD EXPANSION OF WATCH FOR LATER ALREADY OCCURRING...SHOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE BETTER READ ON THAT IN 2-3 HOURS. AFTER FROPA TONIGHT POPS END LATE TONIGHT/EARLY SATURDAY AND MORE NORMAL WINTER WEATHER INFILTRATES FA IN ITS WAKE...TO CONTINUE THROUGH NEXT WEEK. ALSO APPEARS TO BE DRY WEATHER THOUGH SOME GFS FLIRTATIONS WITH POPS IN THE FAR EXTENDED (DAYS 5-7) HAVE OCCURRED PAST COUPLE RUNS...NO APPARENT COLLAB CONSENSUS FOR ITS INCLUSION JUST YET. && .AVIATION... CIGS AROUND THE REGION ARE EXPECTED TO BE QUITE VARIABLE THIS AFTN IN THE VICINITY OF A EWD MOVING PREFRONTAL SFC TROF...BUT SHOULD BE MVFR MOST OF THE TIME INTO THE OVNGT HRS. VSBYS ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAKENING LINE OF TSTMS AND SHWRS HAVE BEEN MOSTLY VFR. THIS IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTN AS THE ACTIVITY BECOMES MORE SCT. HOWEVER THERE MAY BE A FLARE UP OF SHWR/POSSIBLE TSTM ACTIVITY IN THE ERN THIRD OF THE REGION AROUND MIDNIGHT JUST AHEAD OF A FAST-MOVING COLD FRONT. ALL PCPN SHOULD BE OUT OF THE REGION BY 15Z SAT. && .PAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. MO...NONE. IL...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 31, 11:53 AM CST, 2 hours 36 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1153 AM CST FRI DEC 31 2010 ILZ075>078-080>094-INZ081-082-085>088-KYZ001>022-MOZ076-086-087- 100-107>112-114-011100- 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- 1153 AM CST FRI DEC 31 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...SOUTHWEST INDIANA...WESTERN KENTUCKY...AND SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND PORTIONS OF EXTREME SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY UNTIL 700 PM. REFER TO THE WATCH FOR DETAILS. A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION TONIGHT...BRINGING A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AS THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT. LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN WILL ALSO ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION FOR THE WATCH AREA IS REQUESTED.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Dec 31, 2:07 PM CST, 22 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 4:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 31 min |
| Dec 31, 12:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ripley | 51 min |
| Dec 31, 12:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley | 28 min |
| Dec 31, 1:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 33 min |
| Dec 31, 1:57 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| Dec 31, 2:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Ripley, Stoddard, Wayne | 44 min |
| Dec 31, 2:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne | 10 min |
| Dec 31, 2:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Wayne | 41 min |
| Dec 31, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard, Wayne | 33 min |
| Dec 31, 3:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Stoddard | 28 min |
| Dec 31, 4:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.