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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Jackson, KY

March 19, 2003Laurel County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 19, 2003, 4:27 PM EST for Laurel County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 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, 4:27 PM EST (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2003, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Laurel County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 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

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The text

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

583 
WFUS53 KJKL 192127
TORJKL
KYC125-203-192145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
425 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ROCKCASTLE COUNTY
  LAUREL COUNTY

* UNTIL 445 PM EST

* AT 425 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR BUNCH...OR 7 MILES WEST OF LONDON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  EAST BERNSTADT AROUND 430 PM EST.
  GREENMOUNT AROUND 435 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 TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3719 8439 3701 8418 3723 8394 3739 8421

$$
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, 3:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary	25 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, 4:49 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.