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Tornado Warning 81, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Sep 1, 2012, 7:05 PM CDT for Massac County, Pulaski County, Illinois; Ballard County, McCracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 min. 3 reports 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, 7:05 PM CDT (00:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 1, 2012, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Massac County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Ballard County, KY, McCracken County, KY
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 7:20 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 2 S Round Knob, IL | LARGE TREES DOWN...SEVERAL TREES DOWN...TREE TOPS BLOWN OUT FROM 2 MILES SOUTH OF ROUND KNOB AND THEN SCATTERED ABOUT METROPOLIS. |
| Sep 1, 7:20 PM CDT | TORNADO | Woodville, KY | TORNADO REPORTED BY EM. |
| Sep 1, 7:29 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | Metropolis, IL | POWER OUTAGES WITH HALF THE CITY OUT. LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN. TIME ESTIMATED. |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 237 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
- 1909 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1040 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
610 WFUS53 KPAH 020005 TORPAH ILC127-153-KYC007-145-020030- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0081.120902T0005Z-120902T0030Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 705 PM CDT SAT SEP 1 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WESTERN MASSAC COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... EAST CENTRAL PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS... NORTHERN BALLARD COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... NORTHWESTERN MCCRACKEN COUNTY IN WESTERN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 730 PM CDT. * AT 704 PM CDT...STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF LA CENTER. A TORNADO MAY DEVELOP AT ANY TIME! RADAR SHOWED THIS TORNADIC STORM MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... LA CENTER...METROPOLIS...NEW COLUMBIA AND JOPPA. 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 3733 8879 3716 8867 3704 8905 3721 8914 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 247DEG 33KT 3715 8903 $$ PS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac | 22 min |
| Sep 1, 7:34 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Saline | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Massac, Pope | 25 min |
| Sep 1, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Edwards, Hamilton, Wayne, White | 31 min |
| Sep 1, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hardin, Massac, Pope | 27 min |
| Sep 1, 7:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken | 38 min |
| Sep 1, 8:50 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Union, Webster | 3 hr |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.