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Tornado Warning 72, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2012, 4:36 PM CDT for Butler County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 24 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, 4:36 PM CDT (21:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2012, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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, 4:40 PM CDT | TORNADO | 11 Ne Poplar Bluff, MO | TORNADO ON THE GROUND BETWEEN FISK AND ROMBAUER |
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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 225 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.
461 WFUS53 KPAH 012136 TORPAH MOC023-207-012200- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0072.120901T2136Z-120901T2200Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 436 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... CENTRAL STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... * UNTIL 500 PM CDT. * AT 435 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR FISK... OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF POPLAR BLUFF. A TORNADO MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME! RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... BLOOMFIELD...FISK...DUDLEY...PUXICO AND ESSEX. 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 3675 9029 3689 9035 3703 8992 3681 8983 TIME...MOT...LOC 2136Z 251DEG 26KT 3681 9026 $$ PS
2 follow-up statements
407 WWUS53 KPAH 012141 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 441 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012 MOC023-207-012200- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-120901T2200Z/ BUTLER MO-STODDARD MO- 441 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL STODDARD AND NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 439 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED BETWEEN FISK AND ROMBAUER...OR 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF POPLAR BLUFF...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TO REPEAT...A TORNADO IS ON THE GROUND. TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. && LAT...LON 3675 9029 3689 9035 3703 8992 3681 8983 TIME...MOT...LOC 2140Z 251DEG 26KT 3683 9022 $$ PS
128 WWUS53 KPAH 012151 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 451 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012 MOC023-207-012200- /O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0072.000000T0000Z-120901T2200Z/ BUTLER MO-STODDARD MO- 451 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL STODDARD AND NORTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI UNTIL 500 PM CDT... AT 447 PM CDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A TORNADO WITH THIS STORM WHEN IT WAS IN BUTLER COUNTY. THE STORM HAS NOW MOVED INTO STODDARD NEAR ASHERVILLE. RADAR IS INDICATING STRONG ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 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 3675 9029 3689 9035 3703 8992 3681 8983 TIME...MOT...LOC 2150Z 251DEG 26KT 3687 9016 $$
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, 4:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Butler | 37 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.