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Tornado Warning 78, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2012, 5:33 PM CDT for New Madrid County, Stoddard County, Missouri. It was in force for 27 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, 5:33 PM CDT (22:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2012, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties New Madrid County, MO, Stoddard County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 217 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.
680
WFUS53 KPAH 012233
TORPAH
MOC143-207-012300-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0078.120901T2233Z-120901T2300Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
533 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN NEW MADRID COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
SOUTHEASTERN STODDARD COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI...
* UNTIL 600 PM CDT.
* AT 529 PM CDT...RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A HISTORY
OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
PARMA...OR 7 MILES EAST OF BERNIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE...
CANALOU...MOREHOUSE...MATTHEWS...FARRENBURG AND BAKER.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT TAKE SHELTER UNDER HIGHWAY OVERPASSES. AS A LAST
RESORT...EITHER PARK YOUR VEHICLE AND STAY PUT...OR ABANDON YOUR
VEHICLE AND LIE DOWN IN A LOW LYING AREA.
&&
LAT...LON 3685 8970 3687 8953 3669 8939 3661 8987
3672 8990
TIME...MOT...LOC 2233Z 236DEG 28KT 3668 8981
$$
PSThe 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, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Scott, Stoddard | 35 min |
| Sep 1, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Cape Girardeau | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 5:50 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.