Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 2, 2002, 9:39 AM EDT for Washington County, Kentucky. It was in force for 21 min. 1 report 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 2, 2002, 9:39 AM EDT (13:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2002, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Washington County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 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 2, 9:41 AM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Springfield, 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 2, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 1583 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 689 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 391 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.3
- Supercell composite
- 10.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 021339 TORSDF KYC229-021400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 938 AM EDT THU MAY 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1000 AM EDT * AT 936 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR ST. CATHERINE...OR ABOUT 45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TEXAS...MACKVILLE BY 950 AM EDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. $$ FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 30 min |
| 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, 9:47 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 |
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.