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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

March 29, 20024 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 29, 2002, 7:16 PM CST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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: Mar 29, 2002, 7:16 PM CST (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 29, 2002, 7:50 PM CST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Adair County, KY, Barren County, KY, Green County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:16 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
Mar 29, 7:25 PM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 65 E	Center, KY
Mar 29, 7:30 PM CST	Hail 0.75	Edmonton, 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
Mar 29, 3:00 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Mar 29, 6:30 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 137 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: 1120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1253 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 352 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 9.5

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 300116
TORSDF
KYC001-009-087-169-300150-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
716 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NORTHEASTERN BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SOUTHERN GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NORTHERN METCALFE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 750 PM CST

* AT 711 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  HISEVILLE...OR ABOUT 36 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST
  AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SULPHUR WELL...PIERCE AROUND 725 PM CST
  EXIE...GASCON AROUND 730 PM CST
  GRADYVILLE AROUND 740 PM CST

LAT...LON 3715 8581 3701 8586 3696 8541 3725 8541

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 29, 6:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	27 min
Mar 29, 6:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer, Washington	31 min
Mar 29, 6:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	26 min
Mar 29, 6:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	36 min
Mar 29, 7:19 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	26 min
Mar 29, 7:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Monroe	42 min
Mar 29, 7:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	24 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.