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Tornado Warning 73, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 23, 2011, 3:53 PM CDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 22 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, 3:53 PM CDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 23, 2011, 4:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Daviess County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY
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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
219 WFUS53 KPAH 232053 TORPAH KYC059-107-149-233-232115- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0073.110423T2053Z-110423T2115Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 353 PM CDT SAT APR 23 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... NORTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... MCLEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... EASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 415 PM CDT. * AT 349 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. ONE STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF DIXON. THE OTHER STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SLAUGHTERS...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... DIXON... CALHOUN... BEECH GROVE... ST. JOSEPH... LIVERMORE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. && LAT...LON 3745 8710 3739 8767 3751 8771 3775 8722 TIME...MOT...LOC 2052Z 251DEG 35KT 3746 8762 $$
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, 2:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, McCracken | 29 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, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg | 30 min |
| Apr 23, 4:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 25 min |
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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.