Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 24, 2011, 6:35 PM CST for Fulton County, Graves County, Hickman County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Feb 24, 2011, 6:35 PM CST (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2011, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hickman County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:35 PM CST | TORNADO | 2 Nw Fulton, KY | LATE REPORT...EF1 TORNADO WITH PEAK WIND 95 MPH. PATH AVERAGE PATH WIDTH 100 YARDS. PATH LENGTH 7.8 MILES WITH NO INJURIES OR FATALITIES. INITIAL TOUCHDOWN 2NW OF FULTON AT AMTRAK STATION. TORNADO CROSSED IN HICKMAN COUNTY PARALLELING HOLLAND LANE BEFORE CROSS |
| Feb 24, 6:49 PM CST | HAIL 1 | Wingo, KY | |
| Feb 24, 6:51 PM CST | HAIL 1 | 1 S Wingo, KY | QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED 1 MILE SOUTH OF TOWN. VISIBILITY NEAR ZERO WITH VERY STRONG WINDS. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 5:54 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -79 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 538 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 629 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
791 WFUS53 KPAH 250035 TORPAH KYC075-083-105-250100- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0002.110225T0035Z-110225T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 635 PM CST THU FEB 24 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN FULTON COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... SOUTHERN GRAVES COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... SOUTHEASTERN HICKMAN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 700 PM CST. * AT 632 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF FULTON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... FULTON... FULGHAM... SEDALIA... LYNNVILLE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. && LAT...LON 3676 8849 3650 8850 3650 8895 3664 8894 TIME...MOT...LOC 0035Z 266DEG 38KT 3657 8888 $$ PS
1 follow-up statement
668 WWUS53 KPAH 250046 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 646 PM CST THU FEB 24 2011 KYC075-105-250056- /O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110225T0100Z/ HICKMAN KY-FULTON KY- 646 PM CST THU FEB 24 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN FULTON AND SOUTHEASTERN HICKMAN COUNTIES IN WESTERN KENTUCKY IS CANCELLED... LAT...LON 3676 8849 3650 8850 3650 8879 3668 8880 TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 266DEG 38KT 3658 8874 $$ KYC083-250100- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-110225T0100Z/ GRAVES KY- 646 PM CST THU FEB 24 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM CST FOR SOUTHERN GRAVES COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... AT 641 PM CST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WINGO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE SEDALIA AND LYNNVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. && LAT...LON 3676 8849 3650 8850 3650 8879 3668 8880 TIME...MOT...LOC 0046Z 266DEG 38KT 3658 8874 $$ PS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 4 more | 27 min |
| Feb 24, 6:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 40 min |
| Feb 24, 6:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall and 2 more | 35 min |
| Feb 24, 7:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 31 min |
| Feb 24, 7:33 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall | 5 hr |
| Feb 24, 7:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 52 min |
| Feb 24, 8:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 29 min |
| Feb 24, 8:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 8:22 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 8:53 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:26 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg, Webster | 109 min |
| Feb 24, 10:35 PM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 28 days |
| Feb 25, 12:25 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall | 12 hr |
| Feb 25, 12:39 AM CST | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 37 days |
| Feb 25, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 30 days |
| Feb 25, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 33 days |
| Feb 25, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 14 hr |
| Feb 25, 8:36 AM CST | River Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 37 days |
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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.