Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002

Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, KY

March 29, 2002Estill County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 5:04 PM EST for Estill County, Kentucky. It was in force for 56 min. 5 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 29, 2002, 5:04 PM EST (22:04 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2002, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Estill County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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
Mar 29, 5:15 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Waco, KY
Mar 29, 5:40 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Richmond, KY
Mar 29, 5:55 PM EST	Hail 0.88	Waco, KY
Mar 29, 6:00 PM EST	Hail 1	Waco, KY
Mar 29, 6:05 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Irvine, KY

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
Mar 29, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 1682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 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 292204
TORJKL
KYC065-292300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
504 PM EST FRI MAR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ESTILL COUNTY

* UNTIL 600 PM EST

* AT 504 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 16 MILES WEST OF ENGLE...
  OR ABOUT 6 MILES WEST OF RICHMOND...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ENGLE AROUND 520 PM EST
  FOX AROUND 525 PM EST
  CALLOWAY CROSSING AROUND 530 PM EST
  PITTS AROUND 535 PM EST
  FITCHBURG AROUND 540 PM EST

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.

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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST FRIDAY EVENING FOR
SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3787 8444 3769 8447 3761 8381 3783 8378

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 5:59 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Estill	46 min
Mar 29, 6:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	44 min
Mar 29, 6:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	45 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.