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Tornado Warning 70, NWS Paducah, KY

July 3, 2016Johnson County, Illinois

NWS Paducah, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 3, 2016, 4:48 PM CDT for Johnson County, Illinois. 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: Jul 3, 2016, 4:48 PM CDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 3, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Paducah, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.0 in

County Johnson County, IL

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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
Jul 3, 2:24 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 249 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: 93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1231 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

880 
WFUS53 KPAH 032148
TORPAH
ILC087-032215-
/O.NEW.KPAH.TO.W.0070.160703T2148Z-160703T2215Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
448 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...

* UNTIL 515 PM CDT
    
* AT 448 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR VIENNA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF
  CENTRAL JOHNSON COUNTY...INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS: CYPRESS
  AND SIMPSON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3736 8902 3743 8904 3753 8871 3735 8871
TIME...MOT...LOC 2148Z 265DEG 28KT 3739 8895 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

1 follow-up statement

054 
WWUS53 KPAH 032204
SVSPAH

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY
504 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

ILC087-032215-
/O.CON.KPAH.TO.W.0070.000000T0000Z-160703T2215Z/
JOHNSON IL-
504 PM CDT SUN JUL 3 2016

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM CDT FOR
SOUTHEASTERN JOHNSON COUNTY...
    
AT 503 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR VIENNA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE DAMAGE
         IS LIKELY. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
VIENNA AND SIMPSON. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3736 8889 3745 8890 3753 8871 3735 8871
TIME...MOT...LOC 2203Z 265DEG 28KT 3740 8880 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 3, 4:16 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	PAH	Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson and 8 more	35 hr
Jul 3, 9:06 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	Wayne, White	38 hr
Jul 3, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Massac, Pope	49 min
Jul 3, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Edwards, Wabash, White	33 min
Jul 3, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	White	30 min
Jul 3, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	Massac, Pope	52 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.