Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 3:03 AM CST for Bollinger County, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri. It was in force for 42 min. 3 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, 3:03 AM CST (09:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2012, 3:45 AM CST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3:25 AM CST | TORNADO | Patton, MO | 6-8 HOMES HAVE ROOF DAMAGE ALONG HIGHWAY 72. 10 LARGER BARNS DESTROYED OVER A 5 MILE AREA. TREE DAMAGE IS WIDESPREAD. NUMEROUS POWER POLES DOWN. |
| Feb 29, 3:41 AM CST | HAIL 2.5 | Sedgewickville, MO | POWER OUTAGES REPORTED AS WELL |
| Feb 29, 3:49 AM CST | TSTM WND DMG | 2 Se Sedgewickville, MO | BARN BLOWN AWAY ALONG HIGHWAY 72 NEAR THE BOLLINGER AND CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY LINE. |
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
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 296 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -316 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
532
WFUS53 KPAH 290903
TORPAH
MOC017-031-290945-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0004.120229T0903Z-120229T0945Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
303 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
NORTHWESTERN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 345 AM CST.
* AT 300 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SACO...OR 13 MILES NORTH OF SAM A BAKER
STATE PARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
PATTON...ALLIANCE...BURFORDVILLE...MILLERSVILLE...DAISY AND
SEDGEWICKVILLE.
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.
TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3756 9015 3760 8978 3758 8976 3733 8973
3732 9016
TIME...MOT...LOC 0904Z 264DEG 47KT 3743 9040
$$1 follow-up statement
285
WWUS53 KPAH 290925
SVSPAH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
325 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012
MOC017-031-290945-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0004.000000T0000Z-120229T0945Z/
BOLLINGER MO-CAPE GIRARDEAU MO-
325 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHWESTERN CAPE
GIRARDEAU AND NORTHERN BOLLINGER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL
345 AM CST...
AT 320 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MARQUAND...OR 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
FREDERICKTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW.
&&
LAT...LON 3756 9015 3760 8978 3758 8976 3733 8973
3732 9015
TIME...MOT...LOC 0925Z 262DEG 44KT 3747 9010
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 29, 2:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carter, Wayne | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 3:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Wayne | 23 min |
| Feb 29, 3:40 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Butler, Stoddard, Wayne | 35 min |
| Feb 29, 3:43 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 32 min |
| Feb 29, 4:10 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ripley | 35 min |
| Feb 29, 4:14 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Scott, Stoddard | 31 min |
| Feb 29, 4:21 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 24 min |
| Feb 29, 4:35 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler, Ripley, Stoddard | 25 min |
| Feb 29, 4:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott, Stoddard | 36 min |
| Feb 29, 4:46 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 29 min |
| Feb 29, 4:51 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott, Stoddard | 24 min |
| Feb 29, 5:07 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 23 min |
| Feb 29, 5:16 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 29 min |
| Feb 29, 5:23 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid, Stoddard | 37 min |
| Feb 29, 5:54 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 15 min |
| Feb 29, 7:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | New Madrid | 24 min |
| Feb 29, 7:29 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid | 31 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.