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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY

July 8, 2001Johnson County, Morgan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 2001, 10:26 PM EDT for Johnson County, Morgan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 8, 2001, 10:26 PM EDT (02:26 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2001, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Johnson County, KY, Morgan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:27 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
Jul 8, 10:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Thealka, KY	Numerous trees were blown down.

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 090227
TORJKL

KYC115-175-090300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1026 PM EDT SUN JUL 8 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  JOHNSON COUNTY
  MORGAN COUNTY

* UNTIL 1100 PM EDT

* AT 1026 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  PAINTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTH OF SANDY HOOK...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE...
  OVER PAINTSVILLE AT 1050 PM EDT.
  OVER VAN LEAR AT 1055 PM EDT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT 
MONDAY MORNING FOR KENTUCKY.

?LAT...LON 3811 8314 3796 8327 3764 8272 3783 8256

SCHAUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	45 min
Jul 8, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	47 min
Jul 8, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	38 min
Jul 8, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	68 min
Jul 8, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Powell	38 min
Jul 8, 9:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jul 8, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	48 min
Jul 8, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee, Wolfe	67 min
Jul 8, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	67 min
Jul 8, 10:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Elliott	3 hr
Jul 8, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry	45 min
Jul 8, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	45 min
Jul 8, 11:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Morgan	3 hr
Jul 8, 11:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	37 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.