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Tornado Warning 15, NWS Louisville, KY

May 1, 2002Marion County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2002, 7:28 PM EDT for Marion County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 1, 7:38 PM EDT	Hail 4.5	St Mary, KY	Hail damaged homes and vehicles.
May 1, 7:40 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Lebanon, KY	Two people were struck by hail and taken to the hospital. Hail knocked the windows out of several buildings and at least three police cruisers.
May 1, 7:40 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 70 E	Calvary, 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
May 1, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 012328
TORSDF
KYC155-020000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 723 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF
  LEBANON...OR ABOUT 48 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GRAVEL SWITCH...BRADFORDSVILLE AROUND 740 PM EDT

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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

$$

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	43 min
May 1, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	44 min
May 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	49 min
May 1, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	45 min
May 1, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	43 min
May 1, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey	42 min
May 1, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	30 min
May 1, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	41 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.