Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 3:18 AM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 12 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 28, 2002, 3:18 AM CDT (08:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 12 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Breckinridge County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 833 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 372 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 488 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
929 WFUS53 KLMK 280818 TORSDF KYC027-280830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 317 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... EASTERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 330 AM CDT * AT 313 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER UNION STAR...OR ABOUT 43 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... IRVINGTON...CUSTER AROUND 325 AM CDT 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 3791 8656 3761 8633 3780 8617 3798 8641 $$ DK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 3:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 3:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 22 min |
| Apr 28, 3:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 3:41 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 3:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson | 43 min |
| Apr 28, 4:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 19 min |
| Apr 28, 4:23 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 22 min |
| Apr 28, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 4:35 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 4:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Washington | 34 min |
| Apr 28, 4:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 4:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 20 min |
| Apr 28, 4:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 5:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 13 min |
| Apr 28, 5:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 24 min |
| Apr 28, 5:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard | 27 min |
| Apr 28, 5:33 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey | 42 min |
| Apr 28, 5:36 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 5:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln, Madison | 41 min |
| Apr 28, 5:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 15 min |
| Apr 28, 11:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 25 min |
| Apr 28, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 36 min |
| Apr 28, 12:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 29 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.