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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY

April 28, 2002McCreary County, Pulaski County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 1:42 PM EDT for McCreary County, Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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
Apr 28, 2002, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties McCreary County, KY, Pulaski County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 130 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 28, 12:30 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 205 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 998 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2002-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 260 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
998 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

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

992 
WFUS53 KJKL 281742
TORJKL
KYC147-199-281815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
141 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN PULASKI COUNTY
  NORTHERN MCCREARY COUNTY

* UNTIL 215 PM EDT

* AT 141 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NEAR
QUINTON...OR  12   MILES EAST OF MONTICELLO...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.


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 500 PM EDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON 
FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. 

LAT...LON 3696 8467 3684 8459 3678 8435 3699 8434

HAL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 6:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBath50 min
Apr 28, 6:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRowan34 min
Apr 28, 7:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRockcastle27 min
Apr 28, 7:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLaurel31 min
Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDTTornado WarningJKLLaurel52 min
Apr 28, 7:49 AM EDTTornado WarningJKLJackson41 min
Apr 28, 8:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay41 min
Apr 28, 8:29 AM EDTTornado WarningJKLLeslie, Perry46 min
Apr 28, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPowell28 min
Apr 28, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMenifee, Wolfe34 min
Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMorgan30 min
Apr 28, 1:06 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLMorgan24 min
Apr 28, 1:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMagoffin33 min
Apr 28, 1:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJohnson27 min
Apr 28, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPowell36 min
Apr 28, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLaurel, Pulaski, Wayne48 min
Apr 28, 1:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRockcastle44 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMartin35 min
Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWolfe39 min
Apr 28, 1:44 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLMartin41 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMagoffin, Morgan35 min
Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWhitley45 min
Apr 28, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay, Knox56 min
Apr 28, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJohnson31 min
Apr 28, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt26 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnott, Perry28 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell25 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLOwsley25 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLHarlan28 min
Apr 28, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Pike32 min
Apr 28, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMartin27 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPulaski16 min
Apr 28, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRockcastle27 min
Apr 28, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMcCreary36 min
Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLaurel30 min
Apr 28, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee33 min
Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWhitley40 min
Apr 28, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike18 min
Apr 28, 6:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMartin115 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.