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Tornado Warning 30, NWS Paducah, KY

February 29, 2012Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 9:50 AM CST for Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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, 9:50 AM CST (15:50 UTC)
Expired: Feb 29, 2012, 10:15 AM CST
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Christian County, KY, Todd County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Feb 29, 9:51 AM CST	TSTM WND GST 70	Gracey, KY
Feb 29, 9:58 AM CST	TORNADO	3 Nw Hopkinsville, KY	UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN A FIELD BY NORTH SINKING FORK ROAD.
Feb 29, 10:05 AM CST	TSTM WND GST 70	Hopkinsville, KY	ALSO...DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED
Feb 29, 10:24 AM CST	TSTM WND GST 55	Gracey, KY

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, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 107 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.

538 
WFUS53 KPAH 291550
TORPAH
KYC047-219-291615-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0030.120229T1550Z-120229T1615Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  NORTHERN TODD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 1015 AM CST.

* AT 945 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF CADIZ...AND MOVING EAST AT 60
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  HOPKINSVILLE...ALLEGRE AND CLIFTY.

THIS INCLUDES THE PENNYRILE PARKWAY BETWEEN EXITS 7 AND 12.

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 3681 8705 3680 8767 3695 8766 3705 8717
      3704 8715 3706 8708 3705 8705
TIME...MOT...LOC 1550Z 260DEG 50KT 3687 8757

$$

1 follow-up statement

979 
WWUS53 KPAH 291601
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
1001 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

KYC047-219-291615-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0030.000000T0000Z-120229T1615Z/
TODD KY-CHRISTIAN KY-
1001 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL CHRISTIAN AND
NORTHERN TODD COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 1015 AM CST...

AT 959 AM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS
LOCATED NEAR HOPKINSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 40 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 3681 8705 3680 8767 3695 8766 3705 8717
      3704 8715 3706 8708 3705 8705
TIME...MOT...LOC 1601Z 274DEG 35KT 3684 8744

$$

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, 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, 9:54 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.