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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Paducah, KY

February 29, 2012Calloway County, Marshall County, Trigg County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 8:59 AM CST for Calloway County, Marshall County, Trigg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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, 8:59 AM CST (14:59 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2012, 9:30 AM CST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Calloway County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Trigg County, KY

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:01 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
Feb 29, 9:08 AM CST	HAIL 0.25	1 N Almo, KY	PEA SIZE HAIL N OF ALMO
Feb 29, 9:10 AM CST	HAIL 1	Dexter, KY
Feb 29, 9:24 AM CST	HAIL 1	Aurora, KY
Feb 29, 9:36 AM CST	HAIL 1	Energy, KY	QUARTER SIZE HAIL IN THE LBL AREA.

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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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.

605 
WFUS53 KPAH 291459
TORPAH
KYC035-157-221-291530-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0028.120229T1459Z-120229T1530Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CALLOWAY COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHEASTERN MARSHALL COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...
  CENTRAL TRIGG COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 930 AM CST.

* AT 857 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 MURRAY...AND MOVING EAST AT 65
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES AREA...ENERGY...CANTON...HARDIN...AURORA AND
  LINTON.

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 3670 8847 3693 8789 3668 8775 3667 8799
      3667 8806 3666 8807 3660 8847
TIME...MOT...LOC 1459Z 250DEG 58KT 3665 8839

$$

1 follow-up statement

402 
WWUS53 KPAH 291518
SVSPAH

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

KYC035-157-221-291530-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-120229T1530Z/
MARSHALL KY-TRIGG KY-CALLOWAY KY-
918 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN CALLOWAY...
CENTRAL TRIGG AND SOUTHEASTERN MARSHALL COUNTIES IN WESTERN KENTUCKY
UNTIL 930 AM CST...

AT 915 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES AREA...
MOVING EAST AT 60 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 3680 8818 3693 8789 3672 8777 3669 8819
TIME...MOT...LOC 1518Z 248DEG 51KT 3676 8808

$$

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, 6:34 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, 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

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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.