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Tornado Warning 75, NWS Paducah, KY

September 1, 2012Scott County, Stoddard County, Missouri

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2012, 5:25 PM CDT for Scott County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 35 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, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Scott County, MO, Stoddard County, MO

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 255 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.

323 
WFUS53 KPAH 012225
TORPAH
MOC201-207-012300-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0075.120901T2225Z-120901T2300Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
  NORTHEASTERN STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...

* UNTIL 600 PM CDT.

* AT 520 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY
  OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BELL
  CITY...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ADVANCE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
  ORAN...BENTON...SCOTT CITY...MORLEY...KELSO AND LAMBERT.

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 3709 8989 3713 8978 3713 8976 3714 8975
      3714 8973 3715 8972 3724 8949 3706 8941
      3697 8981
TIME...MOT...LOC 2224Z 242DEG 38KT 3704 8978

$$
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, 5:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	New Madrid, Stoddard	41 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.