Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 22, 2003, 5:58 PM EST for Martin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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
- Feb 22, 2003, 5:58 PM EST (22:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Martin County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 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 KJKL 222258 TORJKL KYC159-222330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 558 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MARTIN COUNTY. * UNTIL 630 PM EST. * AT 558 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR PRINCE...OR 7 MILES SOUTH OF INEZ...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HODE AROUND 605 PM EST. 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. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3777 8273 3765 8257 3789 8223 3805 8244 $$ PELTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 3:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 5:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 5:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 5:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 6:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 51 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.