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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY

April 24, 2002Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 24, 2002, 7:35 PM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 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: Apr 24, 2002, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 2002, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ohio County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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
Apr 24, 3:30 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -221 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 403 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 458 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 250035
TORSDF
KYC183-250115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
735 PM CDT WED APR 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 815 PM CDT

* AT 728 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF HEFLIN...OR ABOUT 53 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING
  GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BEDA...CENTERTOWN AROUND 740 PM CDT
  HARTFORD...MCHENRY...DUNDEE...FORDSVILLE AROUND 745 PM CDT
  BEAVER DAM...OLATON AROUND 750 PM CDT
  PRENTISS...ROSINE AROUND 755 PM CDT

TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY RADAR IS INDICATING THE POSSIBILITY OF A 
TORNADO. ALSO DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL ARE 
POSSIBLE WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS OHIO COUNTY.

LAT...LON 3774 8687 3753 8721 3725 8691 3740 8665
          3765 8666

$$

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 24, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	24 min
Apr 24, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	27 min
Apr 24, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	43 min
Apr 24, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	33 min
Apr 24, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	31 min
Apr 24, 9:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	35 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.