Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 1, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. 4 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, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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, 8:05 PM EDT | Hail 4.5 | Waynesburg, KY | |
| May 1, 8:06 PM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Halls Gap, KY | Windows were knocked out of homes. |
| May 1, 8:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 75 E | Crab Orchard, KY | Six power poles were blown down. |
| May 1, 8:14 PM EDT | Hail 2.75 | Kings Mtn, 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 1414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -250 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 414 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 662 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 020000 TORSDF KYC137-020030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 800 PM EDT WED MAY 1 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 758 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER MCKINNEY... OR ABOUT 26 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... KINGS MOUNTAIN...WAYNESBURG AROUND 805 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, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Oldham | 30 min |
| May 1, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| May 1, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 33 min |
| May 1, 8:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 42 min |
| May 1, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 23 min |
| May 1, 9:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Shelby | 23 min |
| May 1, 9:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 48 min |
| May 1, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Woodford | 36 min |
| May 1, 9:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 32 min |
| May 2, 8:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 36 min |
| May 2, 9:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 22 min |
| May 2, 9:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 35 min |
| May 2, 9:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 21 min |
| May 2, 9:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 43 min |
| May 2, 9:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 23 min |
| May 2, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 31 min |
| May 2, 10:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard | 32 min |
| May 2, 10:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 33 min |
| May 2, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 33 min |
| May 2, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 32 min |
| May 2, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 33 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.