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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Paducah, KY

March 2, 2012Daviess County, Henderson County, Kentucky; Spencer County, Indiana

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 1:55 PM CST for Daviess County, Henderson County, Kentucky; Spencer County, Indiana. It was in force for 50 min. 15 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: Mar 2, 2012, 1:55 PM CST (19:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2012, 2:45 PM CST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Spencer County, IN, Daviess County, KY, Henderson County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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
Mar 2, 1:55 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	2 E Corydon, KY
Mar 2, 1:59 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	Henderson, KY	DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
Mar 2, 2:00 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	Henderson, KY	GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED.
Mar 2, 2:02 PM CST	HAIL 1.75	Henderson, KY
Mar 2, 2:05 PM CST	TORNADO	Henderson, KY	TORNADO SPOTTED BY TRAINED SPOTTER ON EAST SIDE OF COMMUNITY. NUMEROUS POWER FLASHES AND LOUD ROAR.
Mar 2, 2:10 PM CST	HAIL 0.75	Owensboro, KY	DIME SIZE HAIL.
Mar 2, 2:13 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	Curdsville, KY
Mar 2, 2:19 PM CST	FUNNEL CLOUD	Owensboro, KY	FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN ON PONDER PLACE ROAD.
Mar 2, 2:21 PM CST	HAIL 1	Owensboro, KY	NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY.
Mar 2, 2:22 PM CST	TORNADO	Owensboro, KY	TORNADO REPORTED NEAR 25TH STREET IN OWENSBORO PROPER.
Mar 2, 2:24 PM CST	HAIL 1	Rockport, IN
Mar 2, 2:25 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 76	Owensboro, KY
Mar 2, 2:25 PM CST	HAIL 0.88	2 E Owensboro, KY	NICKEL SIZE HAIL REPORTED EAST OF TOWN.
Mar 2, 2:25 PM CST	TORNADO	Owensboro, KY	REPORTED NEAR EASTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OFF HWY 405.
Mar 2, 2:26 PM CST	TSTM WND GST 63	Rockport, IN	DOWNED TREES AND POWER LINES 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
Mar 2, 9:54 AM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 1667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 523 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

226 
WFUS53 KPAH 021955
TORPAH
INC147-KYC059-101-022045-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0048.120302T1955Z-120302T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
155 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN SPENCER COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA...
  NORTHERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...
  HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 245 PM CST.

* AT 152 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CORYDON...OR 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  HENDERSON...AND MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

  TRAINED SPOTTERS REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR ZION AND CORYDON AS   
  THIS STORM PASSED THROUGH THOSE AREAS.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  HENDERSON...OWENSBORO...ROCKPORT...ROBARDS...STANLEY...EUREKA...
  GRANDVIEW...KNOTTSVILLE AND HEBBARDSVILLE.

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.

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR
THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3799 8685 3790 8698 3791 8692 3784 8690
      3784 8685 3777 8681 3766 8771 3780 8778
      3783 8779 3785 8768 3782 8764 3787 8758
      3792 8736 3788 8727 3793 8727 3796 8723
      3806 8676 3799 8677
TIME...MOT...LOC 1954Z 256DEG 55KT 3775 8761

$$

2 follow-up statements

897 
WWUS53 KPAH 022021
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
221 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

KYC101-022030-
/O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-120302T2045Z/
HENDERSON KY-
221 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR HENDERSON COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA.

LAT...LON 3799 8677 3799 8685 3790 8698 3791 8692
      3784 8690 3784 8685 3777 8681 3770 8740
      3774 8737 3774 8732 3778 8727 3782 8732
      3789 8731 3788 8727 3793 8727 3796 8723
      3806 8677
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 256DEG 56KT 3784 8711

$$

INC147-KYC059-022045-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-120302T2045Z/
SPENCER IN-DAVIESS KY-
221 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN SPENCER COUNTY IN
SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND NORTHERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
UNTIL 245 PM CST...

AT 220 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.  THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR STANLEY...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF OWENSBORO...
MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

AT 219 PM CST...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED ON THE SOUTHWEST SIDE OF 
OWENSBORO ALONG WITH NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY HIDE THIS TORNADO. DO NOT WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE
TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3799 8677 3799 8685 3790 8698 3791 8692
      3784 8690 3784 8685 3777 8681 3770 8740
      3774 8737 3774 8732 3778 8727 3782 8732
      3789 8731 3788 8727 3793 8727 3796 8723
      3806 8677
TIME...MOT...LOC 2020Z 256DEG 56KT 3784 8711

$$

458 
WWUS53 KPAH 022029 RRA
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
229 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

INC147-KYC059-022045-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0048.000000T0000Z-120302T2045Z/
SPENCER IN-DAVIESS KY-
229 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN SPENCER
COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA...AND NORTHEASTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN
NORTHWEST KENTUCKY UNTIL 245 PM CST...

AT 225 PM CST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR 
EASTVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.

IN ADDITION...76 MPH WIND GUSTS WERE REPORTED IN OWENSBORO WITH 
THIS STORM.

TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.

LAT...LON 3791 8708 3806 8677 3799 8677 3799 8685
      3790 8698 3791 8692 3784 8690 3784 8685
      3777 8681 3774 8708
TIME...MOT...LOC 2028Z 255DEG 63KT 3784 8692

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 2, 1:30 AM CST	Wind Advisory	PAH	Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more	19 hr
Mar 2, 6:16 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Todd	14 min
Mar 2, 12:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard	33 min
Mar 2, 1:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	22 min
Mar 2, 1:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken	34 min
Mar 2, 1:28 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Henderson, Union	32 min
Mar 2, 1:38 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall	37 min
Mar 2, 1:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall	26 min
Mar 2, 1:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Hopkins, Union, Webster	36 min
Mar 2, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	18 min
Mar 2, 2:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	33 min
Mar 2, 2:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Lyon	30 min
Mar 2, 2:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	33 min
Mar 2, 2:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Daviess	12 min
Mar 2, 2:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	19 min
Mar 2, 2:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg	27 min
Mar 2, 3:06 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Trigg	24 min
Mar 2, 3:21 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	39 min
Mar 2, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Muhlenberg, Todd	30 min
Mar 2, 3:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	25 min
Mar 2, 12:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Posey	38 min
Mar 2, 12:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	46 min
Mar 2, 12:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	34 min
Mar 2, 12:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Posey	24 min
Mar 2, 1:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Warrick	21 min
Mar 2, 1:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Gibson, Pike, Warrick	22 min
Mar 2, 2:11 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	23 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2012 Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2012 Every tornado warning in 2012 Tornadoes in 2012

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.