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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

May 17, 2003Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 4:41 PM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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 17, 2003, 4:41 PM EST (21:41 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2003, 5:10 PM EST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Perry County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 217 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2003-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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.

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 172141
TORLMK
INC123-172210-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
440 PM EST SAT MAY 17 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 510 PM EST

* AT 433 PM EST...THERE WAS A PUBLIC REPORT OF ANOTHER BRIEF TORNADO 
  TOUCHDOWN 2 MILES SOUTH OF GATCHEL...OR ABOUT 53 MILES WEST OF     
  LOUISVILLE...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 10 MPH. THERE IS A WEAK           
  CIRCULATION ON THE DOPPLER RADAR ASSOCIATED WITH THIS STORM.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  APALONA AROUND 450 PM EST
  BRISTOW AROUND 455 PM EST
  SASSAFRAS AROUND 500 PM EST
  ADYEVILLE...SIBERIA AROUND 515 PM EST

IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE OR IN A MOBILE HOME...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY
REINFORCED BUILDING OR STORM SHELTER. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK REFUGE
IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW LYING AREA AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR
HANDS.

LAT...LON 3794 8671 3806 8654 3830 8677 3815 8699

$$

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 3:51 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKPerry24 min
May 17, 5:19 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKHarrison41 min
May 17, 5:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford39 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.