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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Louisville, KY

May 1, 2002Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2002, 4:32 PM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 43 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: May 1, 2002, 4:32 PM EST (21:32 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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
May 1, 4:44 PM EST	Hail 1	Doolittle Mills, IN
May 1, 5:08 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Bandon, IN

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
May 1, 2:30 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 216 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 591 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 012132
TORSDF
INC123-012215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
431 PM EST WED MAY 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 428 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF ADYEVILLE...OR ABOUT 48 MILES EAST OF MOUNT
  CARMEL...MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SIBERIA...UNIONTOWN...SASSAFRAS...BRISTOW AROUND 440 PM EST
  APALONA...TERRY...GATCHEL AROUND 445 PM EST
  BRANCHVILLE...BANDON...LEOPOLD AROUND 450 PM EST

THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS STORM. VERY DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ALSO 
ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. ACT QUICKLY AND TAKE COVER UNTIL THE 
STORM PASSES.

$$
FUNK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 4:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	45 min
May 1, 4:20 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	30 min
May 1, 4:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	44 min
May 1, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	36 min
May 1, 6:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	43 min
May 1, 6:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	43 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.