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Tornado Warning 25, NWS Louisville, KY

November 10, 2002Orange County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 4:38 PM EST for Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 10, 2002, 4:38 PM EST (21:38 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Orange County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 10, 3:35 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 102138
TORSDF
INC117-102215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
437 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EST

* AT 436 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  GREENBRIER...OR ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GREENBRIER AROUND 445 PM EST
  FRENCH LICK...WEST BADEN SPRINGS AROUND 450 PM EST
  YOUNGS CREEK...PROSPECT...VALEENE AROUND 455 PM EST
  ABYDEL AROUND 500 PM EST
  PAOLI...CHAMBERSBURG...ORANGEVILLE AROUND 505 PM EST

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

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

LAT...LON 3866 8668 3840 8668 3840 8632 3868 8633

KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 10, 1:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	29 min
Nov 10, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	36 min
Nov 10, 4:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	48 min
Nov 10, 4:32 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	118 min
Nov 10, 4:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	50 min
Nov 10, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	47 min
Nov 10, 5:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	42 min
Nov 10, 5:08 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	22 min
Nov 10, 5:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	37 min
Nov 10, 5:23 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Scott	37 min
Nov 10, 5:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	27 min
Nov 10, 5:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	29 min
Nov 10, 6:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.