Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 7:49 AM EDT for Jackson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 28, 2002, 7:49 AM EDT (11:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 7:54 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mc Kee, KY | One tree was 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 232 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 458 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 536 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 739 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WFUS53 KJKL 281149
TORJKL
KYC109-281230-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
748 AM EDT SUN APR 28 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JACKSON COUNTY
* UNTIL 830 AM EDT
* AT 748 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A LIKELY TORNADIC OVER ANNVILLE...OR 8
MILES SOUTH OF MCKEE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
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 1000 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.
LAT...LON 3742 8404 3740 8383 3734 8379 3731 8389
3726 8391 3727 8404 3733 8411 3742 8409
HEINLEINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 6:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 50 min |
| Apr 28, 6:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 7:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 7:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel | 52 min |
| Apr 28, 8:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 8:29 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Leslie, Perry | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 12:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Wolfe | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 1:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Morgan | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Wayne | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 44 min |
| Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 1:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Martin | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin, Morgan | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 45 min |
| Apr 28, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 56 min |
| Apr 28, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Perry | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Owsley | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 28 min |
| Apr 28, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 16 min |
| Apr 28, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 18 min |
| Apr 28, 6:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Martin | 115 min |
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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.