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Tornado Warning 24, NWS Jackson, KY

November 10, 2002Laurel County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 6:13 PM EST for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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, 6:13 PM EST (23:13 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Laurel County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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, 6:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Countywide, KY	Numerous 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 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, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Nov 10, 5:50 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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: 1061 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 668 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 410 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.2
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

455 
WFUS53 KJKL 102313
TORJKL
KYC125-110000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
613 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN LAUREL COUNTY.

* UNTIL 700 PM EST.

* AT 613 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO 2 MILES WEST OF DILLON...OR 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
  MOUNT VERNON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
RURAL NORTHEASTERN LAUREL COUNTY AROUND 620 PM EST.

DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY
TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A
TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE
IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT.

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 ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EST SUNDAY 
EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 3:48 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Laurel	42 min
Nov 10, 6:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Lee, Owsley	23 min
Nov 10, 6:17 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	28 min
Nov 10, 6:26 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Lee, Wolfe	19 min
Nov 10, 7:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Martin	31 min
Nov 10, 5:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	37 min
Nov 10, 5:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	35 min
Nov 10, 5:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski	28 min
Nov 10, 6:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	30 min
Nov 10, 6:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	28 min
Nov 10, 6:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	35 min
Nov 10, 6:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	34 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.