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Tornado Warning 182, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2011, 12:15 PM CDT for Livingston County, Kentucky; Pope County, Illinois. It was in force for 17 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
- Jun 27, 2011, 12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2011, 12:32 PM CDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Pope County, IL, Livingston County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:27 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Smithland, KY | LARGE LIMBS DOWN. SIDING BLOWN OFF OF A HOUSE. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 708 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
442 WFUS53 KPAH 271715 TORPAH ILC151-KYC139-271745- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0182.110627T1715Z-110627T1745Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1215 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN POPE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 1245 PM CDT. * AT 1213 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAMLETSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS INCLUDE... SMITHLAND... HAMLETSBURG... 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 3726 8830 3707 8827 3706 8846 3720 8848 TIME...MOT...LOC 1715Z 268DEG 31KT 3713 8843 $$ PS
1 follow-up statement
750 WWUS53 KPAH 271732 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1232 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 ILC151-KYC139-271742- /O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0182.000000T0000Z-110627T1745Z/ POPE IL-LIVINGSTON KY- 1232 PM CDT MON JUN 27 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN POPE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY IS CANCELLED... THERE HAVE BEEN SOME REPORTS OF DAMAGE IN SMITHLAND. LAT...LON 3726 8830 3707 8827 3706 8846 3720 8848 TIME...MOT...LOC 1732Z 268DEG 31KT 3712 8825 $$ PS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 12:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall and 1 more | 24 min |
| Jun 27, 12:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Trigg | 32 min |
| Jun 27, 12:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 36 min |
| Jun 27, 1:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 35 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.