Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 4:35 AM CDT for Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 4:35 AM CDT (09:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 5:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hart County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:50 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Countywide, KY | Trees were downed, and there was isolated structural damage. |
| Apr 28, 4:50 AM CDT | Hail 1.75 | Munfordville, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 280935 TORSDF KYC099-281015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 435 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HART COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 515 AM CDT * AT 433 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER CUB RUN... OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... PRICEVILLE AROUND 440 AM CDT MUNFORDVILLE...KESSINGER...ROWLETTS...BONNIEVILLE AROUND 445 AM CDT CANMER...HARDYVILLE...LINWOOD AROUND 455 AM CDT MONROE AROUND 500 AM CDT 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...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. $$ SMALLCOMB
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, 4:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 22 min |
| Apr 28, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 33 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.