Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 8:56 PM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 19 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 2002, 8:56 PM EST (01:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 9:15 PM EST
- In force
- 19 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 9:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Vanceburg, KY | Two trees were downed near the intersection of State Route 10 and Boman Springs Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 350 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
- 356 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -147 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1132 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
752 WFUS51 KILN 110156 TORILN KYC135-110215- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 857 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEWIS COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 915 PM EST... * AT 857 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES WEST OF HEAD OF GRASSY...OR ABOUT 16 MILES NORTH OF MOREHEAD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CAMP DIX... HEAD OF GRASSY... 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. LAT...LON 3848 8355 3831 8347 3844 8295 3864 8303
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 7:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 44 min |
| Nov 10, 7:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 39 min |
| Nov 10, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason, Robertson | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 8:56 PM EST | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 19 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.