Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 28, 2002, 3:35 AM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 min. 1 report 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, 3:35 AM CDT (08:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 4:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ohio County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:40 AM CDT | Tornado F1 | Centertown, KY | On Shrull Lane west of Centertown, a mobile home and several outbuildings were destroyed. There was intermittent damage across extreme western Ohio County. There was structural damage to 16 homes in Hartford. Roofs were off some homes. Mobile homes were picked |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 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.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 280835 TORSDF KYC183-280915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 335 AM CDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY * UNTIL 415 AM CDT * AT 333 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF CENTERTOWN...OR ABOUT 47 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CENTERTOWN...BEDA...HEFLIN AROUND 340 AM CDT BEAVER DAM...HARTFORD...MCHENRY AROUND 345 AM CDT DUNDEE AROUND 350 AM CDT ROSINE AROUND 355 AM CDT FORDSVILLE AROUND 400 AM CDT DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 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. LAT...LON 3751 8719 3733 8718 3734 8676 3765 8667 $$ SMALLCOMB
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, 3:18 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 12 min |
| Apr 28, 3:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 22 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 |
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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.