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Tornado Warning 166, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at May 25, 2011, 8:15 PM CDT for Vanderburgh County, Warrick County, Indiana; Henderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 min. 7 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
- May 25, 2011, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2011, 8:33 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Henderson County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:17 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Evansville, IN | TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN ON NORTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN. POWER OUTAGES REPORTED. |
| May 25, 8:22 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 57 | Evansville, IN | |
| May 25, 8:23 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 70 | Evansville, IN | |
| May 25, 8:23 PM CDT | TSTM WND GST 75 | Evansville, IN | |
| May 25, 8:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Evansville, IN | UPDATE..NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER POLES DOWN. MAJOR POWER LINE DOWN WITH MUCH OF THE WEST SIDE OF THE METRO AREA WITHOUT POWER. |
| May 25, 8:29 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Henderson, KY | LARGE TREE FELL ACROSS MOBILE HOME. |
| May 25, 8:30 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Boonville, IN | *** 1 INJ *** LARGE TREE FELL ON HOME INJURING ONE PERSON. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 11:09 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1870 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 334 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 14.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
367 WFUS53 KPAH 260115 TORPAH INC163-173-KYC101-260145- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0166.110526T0115Z-110526T0145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 815 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTH CENTRAL HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... SOUTHERN VANDERBURGH COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA... WARRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA... * UNTIL 845 PM CDT. * AT 813 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HENDERSON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... HENDERSON... EVANSVILLE... NEWBURGH... MELODY HILL... CHANDLER... BOONVILLE... FOLSOMVILLE... LYNNVILLE... 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. && LAT...LON 3823 8728 3816 8705 3776 8758 3791 8770 TIME...MOT...LOC 0115Z 224DEG 45KT 3789 8758 $$
1 follow-up statement
430 WWUS53 KPAH 260133 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 833 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 INC163-173-KYC101-260143- /O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0166.000000T0000Z-110526T0145Z/ VANDERBURGH IN-WARRICK IN-HENDERSON KY- 833 PM CDT WED MAY 25 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR WARRICK AND SOUTHERN VANDERBURGH COUNTIES IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND NORTH CENTRAL HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY IS CANCELLED... AT THIS TIME THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED. LAT...LON 3823 8728 3816 8705 3776 8758 3791 8770 TIME...MOT...LOC 0133Z 224DEG 45KT 3805 8738 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 7:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Posey | 33 min |
| May 25, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Posey | 65 min |
| May 25, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson | 34 min |
| May 25, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 55 min |
| May 25, 8:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh | 37 min |
| May 25, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike | 31 min |
| May 25, 8:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Gibson, Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 65 min |
| May 25, 8:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Spencer | 23 min |
| May 25, 8:53 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Pike, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick | 3 hr |
| May 25, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 28 min |
| May 25, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 6 more | 47 min |
| May 25, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden, Graves, Hopkins and 5 more | 38 min |
| May 25, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 17 min |
| May 25, 8:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 23 min |
| May 25, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg | 19 min |
| May 25, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon and 5 more | 63 min |
| May 25, 8:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg | 22 min |
| May 25, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 32 min |
| May 25, 9:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 43 min |
| May 25, 9:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 18 min |
| May 25, 9:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg | 64 min |
| May 25, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 32 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.