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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 4, 2011, 10:32 AM CDT for Massac County, Pope County, Illinois; McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min. 4 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
- Apr 4, 2011, 10:32 AM CDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2011, 11:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 10:32 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 63 | Paducah, KY | 63 MPH GUST AT KENTUCKY OAKS MALL |
| Apr 4, 10:33 AM CDT | TSTM WND GST 61 | Paducah, KY | |
| Apr 4, 10:34 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Woodville, KY | WESTERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY...PORCH ROOF BLOWN OFF...SPEED LIMIT SIGNS DOWN...TREE LIMBS DOWN...CARPORT WRAPPED AROUND A TREE...TELEPHONE LINES DOWN...TREE DOWN OVER ROAD. MOSTLY NORTH AND WEST OF NWS OFFICE AT BARKLEY ARPT. |
| Apr 4, 10:35 AM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 N Metropolis, IL | LATE REPORT. CHURCH STEEPLE BLOWN OFF. STEEPLE WAS ABOUT 3 TO 4 FEET AT BASE AND 12 FT IN HEIGHT. |
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 4, 7:22 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -640 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 855 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 507 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
945 WFUS53 KPAH 041532 TORPAH ILC127-151-KYC145-041600- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0024.110404T1532Z-110404T1600Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1032 AM CDT MON APR 4 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN MASSAC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... SOUTH CENTRAL POPE COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... NORTHERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 1100 AM CDT. * AT 1028 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES WEST OF WEST PADUCAH...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... WEST PADUCAH... METROPOLIS... PADUCAH... BROOKPORT... THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 24 BETWEEN EXITS 3 AND 7. 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 3732 8853 3711 8845 3701 8881 3713 8889 TIME...MOT...LOC 1532Z 237DEG 55KT 3710 8876 $$
1 follow-up statement
966 WWUS53 KPAH 041542 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1042 AM CDT MON APR 4 2011 ILC127-151-KYC145-041600- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0024.000000T0000Z-110404T1600Z/ MASSAC IL-POPE IL-MCCRACKEN KY- 1042 AM CDT MON APR 4 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 AM CDT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL POPE AND SOUTHEASTERN MASSAC COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... AND EAST CENTRAL MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... AT 1038 AM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BROOKPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTIES.. LAT...LON 3721 8873 3732 8853 3711 8845 3707 8861 TIME...MOT...LOC 1542Z 247DEG 56KT 3714 8855 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 8:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Alexander, Union | 35 min |
| Apr 4, 10:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 10:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 10:56 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin | 114 min |
| Apr 4, 11:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 9:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton | 47 min |
| Apr 4, 10:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 39 min |
| Apr 4, 10:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 23 min |
| Apr 4, 11:06 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Calloway | 71 min |
| Apr 4, 11:16 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | Christian, McLean, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg | 4 hr |
| Apr 4, 11:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Marshall, Trigg | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 11:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 25 min |
| Apr 4, 11:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Lyon, Todd, Trigg | 37 min |
| Apr 4, 11:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 34 min |
| Apr 4, 11:47 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 55 min |
| Apr 4, 12:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 43 min |
| Apr 4, 12:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 28 min |
| Apr 4, 1:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 3 hr |
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.