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Tornado Warning 31, NWS Louisville, KY

November 10, 2002Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 5:36 PM EST for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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, 5:36 PM EST (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Nov 10, 2002, 6:05 PM EST
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 236 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.

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 102236
TORSDF
INC061-102305-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 605 PM EST

* AT 534 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF
  NEW MIDDLETOWN...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ELIZABETH AROUND 545 PM EST
  RAMSEY AROUND 550 PM EST
  CRANDALL...NEW SALISBURY AROUND 555 PM EST
  BYRNEVILLE...BRADFORD...CENTRAL BARREN AROUND 600 PM EST

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.

LAT...LON 3840 8618 3799 8608 3804 8593 3832 8604
          3841 8604

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, 4:38 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, 5:08 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, 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.