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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY

November 10, 2002Lee County, Wolfe County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 6:26 AM EST for Lee County, Wolfe 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, 6:26 AM EST (11:26 UTC)
Expired
Nov 10, 2002, 6:45 AM EST
In force
19 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Lee County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:26 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Nov 10, 6:38 AM ESTThunderstorm WindIda May, KYSeveral trees were 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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, 6:17 AM ESTTornado WarningJKLElliott, Rowan28 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

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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.