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Tornado Warning 67, NWS Paducah, KY

April 23, 2011Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2011, 2:31 PM CDT for Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 23, 2011, 2:31 PM CDT (19:31 UTC)
Expired: Apr 23, 2011, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Ballard County, KY, McCracken County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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.

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 23, 2:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 313 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

443 
WFUS53 KPAH 231931
TORPAH
KYC007-145-232000-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0067.110423T1931Z-110423T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
231 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN BALLARD COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...
  WESTERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT.

* AT 224 PM CDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO OVER 
FAR EASTERN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY...OR NEAR WICKLIFFE...MOVING EAST AT 
60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  LA CENTER...
  BARLOW...
  WICKLIFFE...
  LOVELACEVILLE...

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 3695 8910 3704 8912 3712 8880 3696 8876
      3695 8882 3696 8884 3695 8890 3694 8903
TIME...MOT...LOC 1931Z 256DEG 56KT 3699 8896

$$

1 follow-up statement

584 
WWUS53 KPAH 231941
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
241 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011

KYC007-145-232000-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0067.000000T0000Z-110423T2000Z/
BALLARD KY-MCCRACKEN KY-
241 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CDT FOR WEST
CENTRAL MCCRACKEN AND EAST CENTRAL BALLARD COUNTIES IN WESTERN
KENTUCKY...

AT 238 PM CDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR KEVIL...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL EMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED 
COUNTY...INCLUDING THE WEST PADUCAH AREA.

LAT...LON 3697 8898 3707 8901 3712 8880 3698 8877
TIME...MOT...LOC 1940Z 256DEG 40KT 3706 8887

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	43 min
Apr 22, 9:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	35 min
Apr 22, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Union, Webster	22 min
Apr 22, 10:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Livingston, McCracken and 2 more	6 hr
Apr 22, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean and 3 more	43 min
Apr 22, 11:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster	30 min
Apr 22, 11:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess	25 min
Apr 22, 11:58 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins, Lyon, Marshall, Muhlenberg	2 hr
Apr 23, 1:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	33 min
Apr 23, 4:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, Livingston, McLean and 2 more	3 hr
Apr 23, 6:27 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, Union	4 hr
Apr 23, 2:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	25 min
Apr 23, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	6 min
Apr 23, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall	29 min
Apr 23, 2:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	McCracken	25 min
Apr 23, 2:51 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves, McCracken, Marshall	24 min
Apr 23, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	33 min
Apr 23, 3:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	28 min
Apr 23, 3:20 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon	25 min
Apr 23, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon, Union and 1 more	41 min
Apr 23, 3:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon	24 min
Apr 23, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg	32 min
Apr 23, 3:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	22 min
Apr 23, 4:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	30 min
Apr 23, 4:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	25 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.