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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Jackson, KY

May 10, 2003Bath County, Montgomery County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT for Bath County, Montgomery County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 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, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Bath County, KY, Montgomery County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 102200
TORJKL
KYC011-173-102300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
600 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BATH COUNTY
  EXTREME NORTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 600 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO 2 MILES NORTH OF JUDY...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF MOUNT
  STERLING...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FLAT CREEK AROUND 605 PM EDT.
  STEPSTONE AROUND 610 PM EDT.
  BOURBON FURNACE AROUND 615 PM EDT.
  OLYMPIA AROUND 620 PM EDT.
  MARSHALL AROUND 625 PM EDT.

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.

LAT...LON 3825 8387 3823 8372 3818 8365 3818 8361
          3814 8363 3815 8359 3808 8352 3806 8359
          3802 8359 3801 8375 3803 8391 3809 8406

$$

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	60 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.