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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Louisville, KY

April 28, 2002Edmonson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 4:23 AM CDT for Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 22 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: Apr 28, 2002, 4:23 AM CDT (09:23 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 4:45 AM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Edmonson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:23 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, 4:35 AM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 90 E	Bee Spg, KY	Windows were blown out of a car. A mobile home and a large storage building were destroyed. A tree was blown on to a car.
Apr 28, 4:35 AM CDT	Tornado F1	Broadway, KY	Roofs were blown off several homes. 2-by-4's from buildings were stuck into the ground. Numerous trees were downed, some were snapped well above the ground.

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, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 372 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 488 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.

227 
WFUS53 KLMK 280923
TORSDF
KYC061-280945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
422 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 445 AM CDT

* AT 418 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER SUNFISH...
  OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BEE SPRING AROUND 430 AM CDT

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3732 8647 3719 8641 3721 8606 3733 8616

$$
DK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	36 min
Apr 28, 3:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	36 min
Apr 28, 3:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	42 min
Apr 28, 3:18 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	12 min
Apr 28, 3:28 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	22 min
Apr 28, 3:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	40 min
Apr 28, 3:41 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	24 min
Apr 28, 3:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	31 min
Apr 28, 4:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson	43 min
Apr 28, 4:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson	40 min
Apr 28, 4:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	34 min
Apr 28, 4:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	19 min
Apr 28, 4:32 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	33 min
Apr 28, 4:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hart	40 min
Apr 28, 4:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Washington	34 min
Apr 28, 4:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	31 min
Apr 28, 4:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	20 min
Apr 28, 4:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	31 min
Apr 28, 5:03 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	27 min
Apr 28, 5:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	13 min
Apr 28, 5:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	24 min
Apr 28, 5:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	27 min
Apr 28, 5:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	42 min
Apr 28, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	39 min
Apr 28, 5:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	41 min
Apr 28, 5:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	15 min
Apr 28, 11:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	25 min
Apr 28, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	36 min
Apr 28, 12:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	29 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.