Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 36, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 10, 2002, 8:25 PM EST for Casey County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 2 reports 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, 8:25 PM EST (01:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 2002, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Casey County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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, 8:30 PM EST | Tornado F0 | Jacktown, KY | A funnel cloud likely remained aloft for much of the duration of the storm, but spot F0 damage to trees was found on the ridge top along Peyton Ridge, at an elevation of about 1400 feet. |
| Nov 10, 8:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 70 E | Mintonville, KY | The roof was blown off a barn. |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 1368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1177 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 73 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 490 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 560 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 15.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 110125 TORSDF KYC045-110200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 823 PM EST SUN NOV 10 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CASEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 900 PM EST * AT 819 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF CLEMENTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... LIBERTY AROUND 830 PM EST YOSEMITE...MIDDLEBURG AROUND 835 PM EST THIS STORM IS PART OF A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT WILL RACE ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CASEY COUNTY...PRODUCING WIND DAMAGE AND HAIL THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. 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. $$ FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 7:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 31 min |
| Nov 10, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 7:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 7:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 20 min |
| Nov 10, 7:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 22 min |
| Nov 10, 7:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 21 min |
| Nov 10, 7:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 17 min |
| Nov 10, 7:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 23 min |
| Nov 10, 7:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 17 min |
| Nov 10, 7:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 22 min |
| Nov 10, 7:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 47 min |
| Nov 10, 8:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Marion | 26 min |
| Nov 10, 8:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Metcalfe, Taylor | 36 min |
| Nov 10, 8:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 46 min |
| Nov 10, 8:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Taylor | 2 min |
| Nov 10, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 15 min |
| Nov 10, 8:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Taylor | 8 min |
| Nov 10, 8:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 8:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 40 min |
| Nov 10, 8:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 8:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 28 min |
| Nov 10, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard | 10 min |
| Nov 10, 8:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Russell | 37 min |
| Nov 10, 9:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 18 min |
| Nov 10, 9:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 18 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.