Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 49, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 2:12 PM CST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 33 min. 2 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, 2:12 PM CST (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Daviess County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 2:25 PM CST | HAIL 1.25 | 10 Nw Calhoun, KY | HALF DOLLAR HAIL REPORTED IN THE COMMUNITY OF BEACH GROVE. |
| Mar 2, 2:39 PM CST | HAIL 1.75 | Slaughters, KY | GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED. |
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 | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 176 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
651 WFUS53 KPAH 022012 TORPAH KYC059-107-149-233-022045- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0049.120302T2012Z-120302T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 212 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN DAVIESS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... NORTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... MCLEAN COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... EASTERN WEBSTER COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 245 PM CST. * AT 210 PM CST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR DIXON...OR 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF PROVIDENCE. DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... CALHOUN...SEBREE...BEECH GROVE...SLAUGHTERS AND MOSELEYVILLE. 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 3774 8709 3750 8711 3741 8768 3758 8775 TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 246DEG 55KT 3753 8761 $$
1 follow-up statement
332 WWUS53 KPAH 022032 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 232 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 KYC107-233-022042- /O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-120302T2045Z/ WEBSTER KY-HOPKINS KY- 232 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN HOPKINS AND EASTERN WEBSTER COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY IS CANCELLED... THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA. LAT...LON 3747 8732 3767 8737 3774 8709 3750 8711 TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 246DEG 55KT 3765 8726 $$ KYC059-149-022045- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0049.000000T0000Z-120302T2045Z/ MCLEAN KY-DAVIESS KY- 232 PM CST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHWESTERN DAVIESS AND NORTHEASTERN MCLEAN COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY UNTIL 245 PM CST... AT 229 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BEECH GROVE...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF CALHOUN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 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 3747 8732 3767 8737 3774 8709 3750 8711 TIME...MOT...LOC 2032Z 246DEG 55KT 3765 8726 $$
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, 1:55 PM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 1:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 18 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 |
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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.