Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 67, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 31, 2012, 4:20 PM CDT for Bollinger County, Wayne County, Missouri. It was in force for 25 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2012, 4:20 PM CDT (21:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2012, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bollinger County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 1:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KBYH), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 446 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
600 WFUS53 KPAH 312120 TORPAH MOC017-223-312145- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0067.120831T2120Z-120831T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 420 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN BOLLINGER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... * UNTIL 445 PM CDT. * AT 416 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SHOOK...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAPPAPELLO LAKE AREA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... GRASSY AND CASCADE. 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 3732 9029 3730 9008 3702 9018 3704 9030 TIME...MOT...LOC 2120Z 187DEG 28KT 3708 9023 $$
1 follow-up statement
682 WWUS53 KPAH 312130 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 430 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2012 MOC017-223-312145- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0067.000000T0000Z-120831T2145Z/ BOLLINGER MO-WAYNE MO- 430 PM CDT FRI AUG 31 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTHEASTERN WAYNE AND WEST CENTRAL BOLLINGER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 445 PM CDT... AT 427 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF SHOOK...OR 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF WAPPAPELLO LAKE AREA...MOVING NORTH AT 30 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3710 9016 3713 9029 3732 9029 3730 9008 TIME...MOT...LOC 2130Z 187DEG 28KT 3716 9022 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 31, 4:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 4:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger | 23 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.