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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Paducah, KY

February 29, 2012Spencer County, Indiana; Daviess County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 6:28 AM CST for Spencer County, Indiana; Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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: Feb 29, 2012, 6:28 AM CST (12:28 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2012, 6:45 AM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Spencer County, IN, Daviess County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:29 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
Feb 29, 1:14 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 580 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 485 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 8.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

372 
WFUS53 KPAH 291228
TORPAH
INC147-KYC059-291245-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0021.120229T1228Z-120229T1245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
628 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA...
  NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 645 AM CST.

* AT 625 AM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD
  NEAR GRANDVIEW...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF ROCKPORT. A TORNADO MAY
  DEVELOP AT ANY TIME! DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM
  MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN SPENCER COUNTY.

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 3800 8676 3799 8683 3794 8690 3793 8697
      3790 8698 3791 8692 3787 8689 3786 8692
      3785 8698 3802 8704 3808 8677
TIME...MOT...LOC 1228Z 255DEG 51KT 3796 8689

$$

1 follow-up statement

840 
WWUS53 KPAH 291240
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
640 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

INC147-KYC059-291250-
/O.EXP.KPAH.TO.W.0021.000000T0000Z-120229T1245Z/
SPENCER IN-DAVIESS KY-
640 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST
INDIANA...AND NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY WILL
EXPIRE AT 645 AM CST/745 AM EST/...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING IS MOVING OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3800 8676 3799 8683 3794 8690 3793 8697
      3790 8698 3791 8692 3787 8689 3786 8692
      3785 8698 3802 8704 3808 8677
TIME...MOT...LOC 1240Z 255DEG 51KT 3800 8668

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 10:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Posey	24 min
Feb 29, 5:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey	26 min
Feb 29, 5:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	29 min
Feb 29, 5:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer, Warrick	34 min
Feb 29, 5:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick	31 min
Feb 29, 6:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	38 min
Feb 29, 4:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard	29 min
Feb 29, 5:14 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard, McCracken	31 min
Feb 29, 5:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle	29 min
Feb 29, 5:23 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Fulton	37 min
Feb 29, 5:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston	29 min
Feb 29, 5:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Livingston, McCracken	16 min
Feb 29, 5:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Carlisle, Hickman	15 min
Feb 29, 5:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston	31 min
Feb 29, 6:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster	28 min
Feb 29, 6:34 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	26 min
Feb 29, 6:58 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	17 min
Feb 29, 7:01 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Graves, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall	44 min
Feb 29, 7:06 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	24 min
Feb 29, 7:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	25 min
Feb 29, 7:29 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton	31 min
Feb 29, 7:35 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Calloway, Graves, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg	25 min
Feb 29, 7:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	17 min
Feb 29, 8:02 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Trigg	28 min
Feb 29, 8:19 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Trigg	26 min
Feb 29, 8:44 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	46 min
Feb 29, 8:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	25 min
Feb 29, 8:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	31 min
Feb 29, 9:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more	26 min
Feb 29, 9:24 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	Calloway	6 hr
Feb 29, 9:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Trigg	33 min
Feb 29, 9:50 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	25 min
Feb 29, 9:54 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	6 hr
Feb 29, 9:58 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Trigg	32 min
Feb 29, 10:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	11 min
Feb 29, 10:19 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	6 hr
Feb 29, 10:21 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Marshall, Trigg	24 min
Feb 29, 10:31 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	29 min
Feb 29, 11:17 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg	28 min
Feb 29, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	20 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.