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Tornado Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY

August 22, 2003Barren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 22, 2003, 6:06 PM CDT for Barren County, Kentucky. 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: Aug 22, 2003, 6:06 PM CDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: Aug 22, 2003, 6:35 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Barren County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:09 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
Aug 22, 1:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 112 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: 2273 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 793 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 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 222306
TORLMK
KYC009-222335-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
605 PM CDT FRI AUG 22 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 635 PM CDT

* AT 605 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BON AYR...
  OR ABOUT 22 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING SOUTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LECTA AROUND 610 PM CDT
  GLASGOW AROUND 615 PM CDT
  HAYWOOD...FINNEY AROUND 625 PM CDT
  LUCAS...AUSTIN...ROSEVILLE...TRACY AROUND 630 PM CDT

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...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3715 8584 3716 8607 3706 8612 3692 8618
          3672 8598 3684 8577

$$

SCHOLZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 22, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	46 min
Aug 22, 2:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	38 min
Aug 22, 2:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	38 min
Aug 22, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	35 min
Aug 22, 2:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	75 min
Aug 22, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Meade	46 min
Aug 22, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue, Nelson	41 min
Aug 22, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Washington	39 min
Aug 22, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	38 min
Aug 22, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	15 min
Aug 22, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	37 min
Aug 22, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	20 min
Aug 22, 4:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	41 min
Aug 22, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	43 min
Aug 22, 4:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin	32 min
Aug 22, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	45 min
Aug 22, 5:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	42 min
Aug 22, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	40 min
Aug 22, 5:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	40 min
Aug 22, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	30 min
Aug 22, 5:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan	56 min
Aug 22, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	34 min
Aug 22, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	18 min
Aug 22, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Warren	23 min
Aug 22, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton	32 min
Aug 22, 6:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	28 min
Aug 22, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	36 min
Aug 22, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	27 min
Aug 22, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	40 min
Aug 22, 6:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	38 min
Aug 22, 6:39 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Ohio	96 min
Aug 22, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	43 min
Aug 22, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	27 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.