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Tornado Warning 29, NWS Louisville, KY

November 10, 2002Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:08 PM EST for Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 22 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: Nov 10, 2002, 5:08 PM EST (22:08 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:11 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
Nov 10, 5:12 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	New Pekin, IN	Trees were downed.

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
Nov 10, 3:35 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 335 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.

653 
WFUS53 KLMK 102208
TORSDF
INC175-102230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 506 PM EST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO JUST SOUTH OF 
ROSEBUD...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NEW PEKIN...SALEM...MARTINSBURG...RUSH CREEK VALLEY AROUND 515 PM
  EST
  FARABEE...SOUTH BOSTON...CANTON...KOSSUTH AROUND 520 PM EST
  BUNKER HILL...BLUE RIVER AROUND 525 PM EST

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

XXV

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, 4:38 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	37 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, 5:23 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

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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.