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Tornado Warning 88, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Dec 9, 2012, 3:16 PM CST for 4 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 17 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
- Dec 9, 2012, 3:16 PM CST (21:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 9, 2012, 3:33 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Butler County, MO, Carter County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Paducah radar (KPAH), 163 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2:10 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
278 WFUS53 KPAH 092116 TORPAH MOC023-035-181-223-092145- /O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0088.121209T2116Z-121209T2145Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 316 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... SOUTHEASTERN CARTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... NORTHEASTERN RIPLEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI... * UNTIL 345 PM CST. * AT 312 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BUDAPEST...OR 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF DONIPHAN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNED AREA INCLUDE... BRUSH ARBOR AND MILLTOWN. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THIS TORNADO WARNING IS AN UPGRADE TO THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME GENERAL AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! && LAT...LON 3699 9050 3676 9043 3676 9076 3686 9077 TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 257DEG 30KT 3682 9066 $$
1 follow-up statement
030 WWUS53 KPAH 092133 SVSPAH SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 333 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 MOC023-035-181-223-092142- /O.CAN.KPAH.TO.W.0088.000000T0000Z-121209T2145Z/ BUTLER MO-CARTER MO-RIPLEY MO-WAYNE MO- 333 PM CST SUN DEC 9 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL WAYNE...NORTHEASTERN RIPLEY...SOUTHEASTERN CARTER AND NORTHWESTERN BUTLER COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI IS CANCELLED... THE ROTATION WITHIN THE STORM HAD WEAKENED. HOWEVER THE STORM MAY STILL PRODUCE UP TO 1 INCH HAIL AND 60 MPH WINDS AS IT TRACKS ACROSS NORTHERN BUTLER INTO SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THIS STORM UNTIL 400 PM. LAT...LON 3699 9050 3676 9043 3676 9076 3686 9077 TIME...MOT...LOC 2132Z 257DEG 30KT 3685 9050 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Carter, Ripley, Wayne | 32 min |
| Dec 9, 3:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Butler, Wayne | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.