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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, KY

June 25, 2002Floyd County, Knott County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 25, 2002, 6:47 PM EDT for Floyd County, Knott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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: Jun 25, 2002, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 252247
TORJKL
KYC071-119-252315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
646 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY
  SOUTHEAST KNOTT COUNTY

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 646 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR HALO...OR 14 MILES NORTH OF WHITESBURG...
  MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BURTON AROUND 655 PM EDT.
  HI HAT AROUND 700 PM EDT.
  DEMO AROUND 705 PM EDT.
  EAST MCDOWELL AROUND 710 PM EDT.
  MINNIE AROUND 715 PM EDT.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE PIPPA PASSES...WAYLAND...
  WHEELWRIGHT AND ALPHORETTA

THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.

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.

LAT...LON 3722 8294 3722 8264 3755 8257 3757 8285

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 25, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Letcher	42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.