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Tornado Warning 74, NWS Paducah, KY

September 1, 2012New Madrid County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2012, 5:04 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 41 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: Sep 1, 2012, 5:04 PM CDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2012, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties New Madrid County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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.

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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

700 
WFUS53 KPAH 012204
TORPAH
MOC143-207-012245-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0074.120901T2204Z-120901T2245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
504 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL NEW MADRID COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
  SOUTHEASTERN STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 545 PM CDT.

* AT 500 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY
  OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  GLENNONVILLE...OR 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF CAMPBELL...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  BERNIE...RISCO AND PARMA.

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 3660 8997 3662 8998 3662 9014 3666 9014
      3678 8972 3654 8971 3650 8996 3650 8997
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 252DEG 30KT 3657 9010

$$
PS

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, 4:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Butler, Stoddard	24 min
Sep 1, 4:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Stoddard	47 min
Sep 1, 5:25 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

Nearby

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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.