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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY

June 2, 2001Clay County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT for Clay County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2001, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Clay County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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
Jun 2, 6:40 PM EDT	Tornado F0	Manchester, KY	The tornado was reported moving through a forested area southwest of Manchester. Roofing material and other debris generated while the tornado moved through Laurel county was also reported in the air. Items from a damaged store in London was found some 20 mi

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 895 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 247 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 022230
TORJKL
KYC051-022245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
630 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CLAY COUNTY

* UNTIL 645 PM EDT

* AT 627 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER BUSH...OR ABOUT 7   
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. SPOTTERS    
  AND PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO TOUCHDOWN JUST EAST OF LONDON IN     
  LAUREL COUNTY AT 614 PM EDT. 

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER BLUEHOLE AT 635 PM EDT.
  OVER BOHO AT 640 PM EDT.
  2 MILES NORTH OF PLANK AT 645 PM EDT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW
SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAyILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE 
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

LAT...LON 3720 8395 3702 8395 3704 8358 3723 8360

SCHAUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	26 min
Jun 2, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	37 min
Jun 2, 6:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Clay, Laurel	21 min
Jun 2, 6:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Clay	32 min
Jun 2, 6:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knox	51 min
Jun 2, 6:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie	48 min
Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.