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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY

March 29, 2002Boyle County, Mercer County, Washington County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 4:57 PM EST for Boyle County, Mercer County, Washington County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 min. 2 reports 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: Mar 29, 2002, 4:57 PM EST (21:57 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Boyle County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Washington County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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
Mar 29, 5:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 75 E	Countywide, KY	Widespread wind damage was reported around the county. Two barns and two silos were destroyed. Power lines were downed.
Mar 29, 5:10 PM EST	Hail 1	Harrodsburg, KY

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
Mar 29, 4:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 215 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1682 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 292157
TORSDF
KYC021-167-229-292215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
456 PM EST FRI MAR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOYLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  MERCER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 454 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  WILLISBURG...OR ABOUT 43 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING
  EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEVADA...ROSE HILL...PERRYVILLE...HARRODSBURG AROUND 510 PM EST    
  BURGIN AROUND 515 PM EST

LAT...LON 3785 8516 3772 8533 3757 8485 3780 8474

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 2:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	34 min
Mar 29, 3:18 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson	42 min
Mar 29, 3:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	35 min
Mar 29, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Washington	30 min
Mar 29, 4:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer, Woodford	20 min
Mar 29, 4:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine	22 min
Mar 29, 4:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Washington	28 min
Mar 29, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	26 min
Mar 29, 5:17 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer	28 min
Mar 29, 5:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer	25 min
Mar 29, 5:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	23 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.