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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Paducah, KY

January 22, 2012Calloway County, Graves County, Marshall County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 22, 2012, 10:37 PM CST for Calloway County, Graves County, Marshall County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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: Jan 22, 2012, 10:37 PM CST (04:37 UTC)
Expired: Jan 22, 2012, 11:00 PM CST
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Calloway County, KY, Graves County, KY, Marshall County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 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
Jan 22, 11:00 PM CST	HAIL 0.88	Benton, KY	NICKLE SIZE HAIL REPORTED.

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
Jan 22, 7:28 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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The text

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

886 
WFUS53 KPAH 230437
TORPAH
KYC035-083-157-230500-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0001.120123T0437Z-120123T0500Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1037 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CALLOWAY COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHEASTERN GRAVES COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 1100 PM CST.

* AT 1036 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LYNNVILLE...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MAYFIELD...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  BENTON...HARRIS GROVE...KIRKSEY...BREWERS AND HARDIN.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3659 8870 3696 8836 3676 8816 3649 8851
      3650 8855
TIME...MOT...LOC 0437Z 219DEG 61KT 3661 8854

$$
PS

1 follow-up statement

519 
WWUS53 KPAH 230449
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1049 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

KYC035-083-157-230500-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-120123T0500Z/
MARSHALL KY-CALLOWAY KY-GRAVES KY-
1049 PM CST SUN JAN 22 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRAVES...
NORTHWESTERN CALLOWAY AND SOUTHWESTERN MARSHALL COUNTIES IN WESTERN
KENTUCKY UNTIL 1100 PM CST...

AT 1046 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS 
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF MURRAY...NEAR 
KIRKSEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3660 8857 3696 8836 3676 8816 3649 8851
      3650 8855
TIME...MOT...LOC 0449Z 219DEG 61KT 3672 8837

$$
PS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 22, 8:54 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken	4 hr
Jan 22, 8:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	36 min
Jan 22, 9:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman	30 min
Jan 22, 10:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken	44 min
Jan 22, 10:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Graves, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall	48 min
Jan 22, 10:40 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson and 10 more	3 hr
Jan 22, 10:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway	35 min
Jan 22, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Henderson, Hopkins, Lyon and 3 more	33 min
Jan 22, 11:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	34 min
Jan 22, 11:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall	18 min
Jan 22, 11:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more	45 min
Jan 23, 12:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	33 min
Jan 23, 2:00 PM CST	River Flood Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	9 days

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.