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Tornado Warning 22, NWS Paducah, KY

February 29, 2012Hopkins County, McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 6:34 AM CST for Hopkins County, McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min. 4 reports 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: Feb 29, 2012, 6:34 AM CST (12:34 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2012, 7:00 AM CST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 29, 6:40 AM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Madisonville, KY	SEVERLY DAMAGED HOME BLOCKING ROADWAY.
Feb 29, 6:40 AM CST	HAIL 0.75	Madisonville, KY	DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY.
Feb 29, 6:40 AM CST	TORNADO	Madisonville, KY	TORNADO ON THE GROUND REPORTED AT EXIT 44 ALONG THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY.
Feb 29, 6:57 AM CST	HAIL 1	Bremen, KY	QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY.

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
Feb 29, 1:14 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	11 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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

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The text

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

253 
WFUS53 KPAH 291234
TORPAH
KYC107-149-177-291300-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0022.120229T1234Z-120229T1300Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...
  NORTHERN MUHLENBERG COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 700 AM CST.

* AT 630 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF MADISONVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT
  60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  MADISONVILLE...GREENVILLE...CENTRAL CITY...EARLINGTON...MORTONS
  GAP...GRAHAM...POWDERLY...HANSON...SACRAMENTO...BREMEN...ISLAND...
  SOUTH CARROLLTON AND DRAKESBORO.

THIS INCLUDES THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY BETWEEN EXITS 37 AND 49.

THIS INCLUDES THE WEST KENTUCKY PARKWAY BETWEEN EXITS 53 AND 58.

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 3715 8693 3724 8768 3742 8765 3748 8711
      3737 8709 3734 8713 3734 8710 3738 8708
      3737 8704 3735 8700 3727 8697 3726 8695
      3718 8689
TIME...MOT...LOC 1235Z 276DEG 53KT 3732 8753

$$

1 follow-up statement

626 
WWUS53 KPAH 291245
SVSPAH

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

KYC107-149-177-291300-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0022.000000T0000Z-120229T1300Z/
MCLEAN KY-MUHLENBERG KY-HOPKINS KY-
645 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL HOPKINS AND
SOUTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...AND NORTHERN
MUHLENBERG COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 700 AM CST...

AT 640 AM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO CROSSING 
THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY AT EXIT 44. BLOWN TRANSFORMERS WERE ALSO BEING 
REPORTED. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. 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 3715 8693 3725 8759 3742 8752 3744 8710
      3737 8709 3734 8713 3734 8710 3738 8708
      3737 8704 3735 8700 3727 8697 3726 8695
      3718 8689
TIME...MOT...LOC 1244Z 277DEG 48KT 3730 8740

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 29, 4:46 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Ballard	29 min
Feb 29, 5:04 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	26 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, 5:31 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	29 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, 5:56 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson	34 min
Feb 29, 5:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston	31 min
Feb 29, 5:59 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson	31 min
Feb 29, 6:17 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster	28 min
Feb 29, 6:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, McLean	38 min
Feb 29, 6:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess	17 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.