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Tornado Warning 82, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 25, 2011, 4:44 PM CDT for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 16 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 25, 2011, 4:44 PM CDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 25, 2011, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 16 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Muhlenberg County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -150 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1101 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
781
WFUS53 KPAH 252144
TORPAH
KYC177-252200-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0082.110425T2144Z-110425T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
444 PM CDT MON APR 25 2011
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN MUHLENBERG COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT.
* AT 441 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
NORTHWEST OF DUNMOR...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
DUNMOR...
DRAKESBORO...
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.
IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.
&&
LAT...LON 3710 8690 3706 8706 3706 8712 3722 8718
3731 8699 3727 8698 3725 8695 3725 8692
3722 8690 3714 8693 3713 8689
TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 253DEG 37KT 3716 8703
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 24, 9:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 59 hr |
| Apr 25, 12:39 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, Livingston, McCracken | 2 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 5:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 6:16 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 39 min |
| Apr 25, 3:18 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Graves, Hopkins, Lyon and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd, Trigg | 45 min |
| Apr 25, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 34 min |
| Apr 25, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean, Muhlenberg | 42 min |
| Apr 25, 4:58 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Webster | 118 min |
| Apr 25, 6:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 6 hr |
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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.