Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2003
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 3:35 PM EST for McCreary County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Mar 19, 2003, 3:35 PM EST (20:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 2003, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County McCreary County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 12:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 231 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
063 WFUS53 KJKL 192035 TORJKL KYC147-192100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 333 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCCREARY COUNTY * UNTIL 400 PM EST * AT 333 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A LIKELY TORNADO 4 MILES EAST OF GREAT MEADOWS CAMPSITES...OR 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITLEY CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS COORESPONDS TO A REPORT FROM A PUBLIC OBSERVER OF A TORNADO JUST EAST OF THE BLUE HERON CAMPGROUND. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... WHITLEY CITY AROUND 340 PM EST. MARSHES SIDING AROUND 345 PM EST. PARKERS LAKE AROUND 350 PM EST. GREENWOOD AROUND 355 PM EST. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3651 8491 3639 8469 3697 8416 3695 8452 $$ DUSTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 1:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 46 min |
| Mar 19, 1:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 84 min |
| Mar 19, 2:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 36 min |
| Mar 19, 2:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 39 min |
| Mar 19, 3:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 49 min |
| Mar 19, 3:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 20 min |
| Mar 19, 4:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 24 min |
| Mar 19, 4:12 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel | 18 min |
| Mar 19, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel | 10 min |
| Mar 19, 4:27 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 18 min |
| Mar 19, 4:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 4:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe | 32 min |
| Mar 19, 5:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 14 min |
| Mar 19, 5:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 18 min |
| Mar 19, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 29 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.