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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY

April 28, 2002Meade County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 4:28 AM EDT for Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 22 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2002, 4:28 AM EDT (08:28 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 4:50 AM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 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
Apr 28, 4:28 AM EDT	Tornado F0	Guston, KY	The tornado crossed into Meade County from Breckinridge County. Numerous trees were uprooted.
Apr 28, 4:40 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 80 E	Brandenburg, KY	Numerous trees were downed, and there was unspecified structural damage along Highway 60. Telephone poles were also 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 280828
TORSDF
KYC163-280850-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
428 AM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 450 AM EDT

* AT 423 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER GUSTON...OR
  ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  GARRETT...BRANDENBURG AROUND 435 AM EDT
  DOE VALLEY AROUND 440 AM EDT

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 3795 8634 3781 8616 3787 8598 3799 8606
          3802 8618

$$
DK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 3:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	36 min
Apr 28, 4:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	36 min
Apr 28, 4:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	42 min
Apr 28, 4:18 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	12 min
Apr 28, 4:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	40 min
Apr 28, 4:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	24 min
Apr 28, 4:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	31 min
Apr 28, 5:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson	43 min
Apr 28, 5:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson	40 min
Apr 28, 5:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	34 min
Apr 28, 5:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	19 min
Apr 28, 5:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	22 min
Apr 28, 5:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	33 min
Apr 28, 5:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hart	40 min
Apr 28, 5:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Washington	34 min
Apr 28, 5:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	31 min
Apr 28, 5:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	20 min
Apr 28, 5:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	31 min
Apr 28, 6:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	27 min
Apr 28, 6:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	13 min
Apr 28, 6:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	24 min
Apr 28, 6:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	27 min
Apr 28, 6:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	42 min
Apr 28, 6:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	39 min
Apr 28, 6:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	41 min
Apr 28, 6:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	15 min
Apr 28, 12:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	25 min
Apr 28, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	36 min
Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	29 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.