Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 29, 2012, 4:10 AM CST for Ripley County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report 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, 4:10 AM CST (10:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2012, 4:45 AM CST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Ripley County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:11 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, 4:30 AM CST | HAIL 0.75 | Doniphan, MO | DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED WITH HEAVY RAIN. |
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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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.
721
WFUS53 KPAH 291010
TORPAH
MOC181-291045-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0007.120229T1010Z-120229T1045Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
410 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 445 AM CST.
* AT 406 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF DALTON...OR 21 MILES
NORTHWEST OF POCAHONTAS...AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
DONIPHAN...GATEWOOD AND OXLY.
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 3668 9064 3649 9059 3649 9112 3650 9113
3660 9113
TIME...MOT...LOC 1011Z 261DEG 53KT 3650 9115
$$1 follow-up statement
821 WWUS53 KPAH 291027 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 427 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012 MOC181-291045- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-120229T1045Z/ RIPLEY MO- 427 AM CST WED FEB 29 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEASTERN RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 445 AM CST... AT 424 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF DONIPHAN...MOVING EAST AT 75 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. TORNADOES ARE DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. TAKE COVER NOW. && LAT...LON 3649 9091 3661 9091 3668 9064 3649 9059 TIME...MOT...LOC 1027Z 261DEG 65KT 3654 9079 $$
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, 3:03 AM CST | Tornado Warning | PAH | Bollinger, Cape Girardeau | 42 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, 4:14 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.