Alert archive / Missouri / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 71, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2012, 4:23 PM CDT for Butler County, Missouri. It was in force for 37 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
- Sep 1, 2012, 4:23 PM CDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Butler County, MO
The radar
The Memphis radar (KNQA), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 4:45 PM CDT | TORNADO | Qulin, MO | TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR QULIN |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 1:19 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
329
WFUS53 KPAH 012123
TORPAH
MOC023-012200-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0071.120901T2123Z-120901T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
423 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 500 PM CDT.
* AT 419 PM CDT...TRAINED STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CORNING. RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35
MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
NEELYVILLE AND QULIN.
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 3649 9056 3650 9057 3655 9058 3672 9017
3662 9015 3660 9016 3659 9017 3656 9017
3649 9022
TIME...MOT...LOC 2123Z 248DEG 29KT 3649 9050
$$
PS2 follow-up statements
860
WWUS53 KPAH 012139
SVSPAH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
439 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012
MOC023-012200-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0071.000000T0000Z-120901T2200Z/
BUTLER MO-
439 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 500 PM CDT...
AT 435 PM CDT...TRAINED STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO WITH THIS
STORM IN CLAY COUNTY ARKANSAS. THIS STORM IS SHOWING SIGNS OF STRONG
ROTATION. IT HAS JUST CROSSED INTO BUTLER COUNTY. MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 35 MPH.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN
INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID
WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE
CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3650 9047 3672 9017 3662 9015 3660 9016
3659 9017 3656 9017 3649 9022
TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 248DEG 29KT 3652 9036
$$
!PS502
WWUS53 KPAH 012148
SVSPAH
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
448 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012
MOC023-012200-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0071.000000T0000Z-120901T2200Z/
BUTLER MO-
448 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 500 PM CDT...
AT 443 PM CDT...TRAINED STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR HIGHWAY 53 NEAR QULIN...MOVING EAST AT 35
MPH.
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 3650 9047 3672 9017 3662 9015 3660 9016
3659 9017 3656 9017 3649 9022
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 248DEG 29KT 3655 9027
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 3:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler, Stoddard | 24 min |
| Sep 1, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Stoddard | 47 min |
| Sep 1, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 41 min |
| Sep 1, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | New Madrid, Stoddard | 27 min |
| Sep 1, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau, Mississippi, Scott, Stoddard | 25 min |
| Sep 1, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Butler | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 6:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi, New Madrid, Scott | 24 min |
| Sep 1, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 6:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Mississippi | 33 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.