Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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
- May 10, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lewis County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
379 WFUS51 KILN 102115 TORILN KYC135-102145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 512 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LEWIS COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 545 PM EDT... * AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES WEST OF VANCEBURG...OR ABOUT 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF FLEMINGSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... CAMP DIX... LINDSEY... VANCEBURG... RUGGLES... 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 OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. LAT...LON 3868 8348 3850 8353 3838 8296 3860 8290
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:52 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 113 min |
| May 10, 4:05 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Grant, Kenton | 115 min |
| May 10, 4:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 28 min |
| May 10, 4:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:15 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallatin | 90 min |
| May 10, 9:28 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 3 hr |
| May 10, 11:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone | 58 min |
| May 10, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 42 min |
| May 10, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 40 min |
| May 10, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 52 min |
| May 10, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis | 24 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.