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Tornado Warning 14, NWS Louisville, KY

May 17, 2003Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 17, 2003, 6:19 PM EDT for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 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, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 2003, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 226 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.

142 
WFUS53 KLMK 172219
TORLMK
INC061-172300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER NEW
  AMSTERDAM...OR ABOUT 31 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING
  NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  VALLEY CITY AROUND 625 PM EDT
  NEW AMSTERDAM...CENTRAL AROUND 630 PM EDT
  CORYDON AROUND 655 PM EDT
  WHITE CLOUD AROUND 700 PM EDT

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 3802 8619 3807 8628 3817 8632 3828 8625
          3827 8611

$$

SMALLCOMB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 17, 4:51 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKPerry24 min
May 17, 5:41 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKPerry29 min
May 17, 6:51 PM EDTSevere 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.