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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY

April 28, 2002Owsley County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 2:35 PM EDT for Owsley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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, 2:35 PM EDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Owsley County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 28, 12:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 113 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -214 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1297 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 101 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 240 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

330 
WFUS53 KJKL 281835
TORJKL
KYC189-281900-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OWSLEY COUNTY

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
A   SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES WEST 
OF   TRAVELLERS REST...OR  NEAR MCKEE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BOONEVILLE AROUND 245 PM EDT

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.

THIS STORM WILL ALSO LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON 
FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. 

LAT...LON 3752 8390 3737 8381 3735 8357 3751 8358

HAL

The 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, 7:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	41 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, 2:47 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

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.