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Tornado Warning 122, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 27, 2011, 4:16 PM CDT for Cape Girardeau County, Perry County, Missouri; Jackson County, Union County, Illinois. It was in force for 29 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
- Apr 27, 2011, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 27, 2011, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Jackson County, IL, Union County, IL, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Perry County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Fruitland, MO | TEN INCH CHERRY SNAPPED ABOVE THE GROUND AT HIGHWAY FF AND HIGHWAY 61. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 27, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 791 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
149 WFUS53 KPAH 272116 TORPAH ILC077-181-MOC031-157-272145- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0122.110427T2116Z-110427T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 416 PM CDT WED APR 27 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... EASTERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... WESTERN JACKSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT. * AT 413 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 8 MILES EAST OF DAISY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... DAISY... GRAND TOWER... ALTENBURG... CEDAR LAKE AREA... MURPHYSBORO... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... 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 A HOME OR BUILDING. IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. && LAT...LON 3795 8928 3750 8929 3742 8977 3774 8991 TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 225DEG 52KT 3752 8961 $$
1 follow-up statement
488 WWUS53 KPAH 272134 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 434 PM CDT WED APR 27 2011 ILC077-181-MOC031-157-272145- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0122.000000T0000Z-110427T2145Z/ UNION IL-JACKSON IL-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-PERRY MO- 434 PM CDT WED APR 27 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR WESTERN JACKSON AND NORTHWESTERN UNION COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND EASTERN PERRY AND NORTHEASTERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... AT 432 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND TOWER...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GORHAM...CEDAR LAKE AREA... VERGENNES...MURPHYSBORO AND ALTO PASS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. && LAT...LON 3774 8991 3795 8928 3750 8929 3746 8952 TIME...MOT...LOC 2134Z 240DEG 29KT 3755 8948 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 26, 7:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, New Madrid, Ripley, Stoddard, Wayne | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 25 min |
| Apr 26, 7:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 12 hr |
| Apr 26, 7:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Perry, Scott | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 12 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:03 AM CDT | River Flood Warning | PAH | Carter | 82 min |
| Apr 27, 9:10 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Mississippi, New Madrid and 5 more | 48 hr |
| Apr 27, 12:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Ripley | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 12:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Wayne | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Stoddard, Wayne | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 1:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 32 min |
| Apr 27, 1:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 1:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Wayne | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard | 34 min |
| Apr 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 30 min |
| Apr 27, 2:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 24 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Wayne | 37 min |
| Apr 27, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler | 26 min |
| Apr 27, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler | 24 min |
| Apr 27, 3:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard | 29 min |
| Apr 27, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 41 min |
| Apr 27, 3:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 19 min |
| Apr 27, 3:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 17 min |
| Apr 27, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry | 23 min |
| Apr 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 35 min |
| Apr 27, 3:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Scott | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 14 min |
| Apr 27, 4:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Perry | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Scott | 35 min |
| Apr 26, 9:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Perry, Wayne and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 26, 9:54 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Wabash | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 33 min |
| Apr 27, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson, Perry, Williamson | 27 min |
| Apr 27, 4:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson, Union | 31 min |
| Apr 27, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Franklin, Johnson, Pulaski, Union, Williamson | 49 min |
| Apr 27, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Pope, Saline | 16 min |
| Apr 27, 5:36 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Saline, Wabash, Wayne and 1 more | 6 hr |
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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.