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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jackson, KY

November 10, 2002Elliott County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 6:17 AM EST for Elliott County, Rowan 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 10, 2002, 6:17 AM EST (11:17 UTC)
Expired
Nov 10, 2002, 6:45 AM EST
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Elliott County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2002-11-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2002-11-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 315 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
315 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
435 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 10, 3:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay, Laurel42 min
Nov 10, 6:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson, Lee, Owsley23 min
Nov 10, 6:26 AM ESTTornado WarningJKLLee, Wolfe19 min
Nov 10, 7:29 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJohnson, Martin31 min
Nov 10, 5:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWayne37 min
Nov 10, 5:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPulaski35 min
Nov 10, 5:32 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLPulaski28 min
Nov 10, 6:00 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLPulaski, Rockcastle30 min
Nov 10, 6:13 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLaurel47 min
Nov 10, 6:17 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLJackson28 min
Nov 10, 6:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLOwsley35 min
Nov 10, 6:56 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLaurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle34 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Every tornado warning in 2002Tornadoes in 2002

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.