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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY

May 5, 2003Boyle County, Marion County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 5, 2003, 1:38 PM EDT for Boyle County, Marion County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 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 5, 2003, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2003, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Boyle County, KY, Marion County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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
May 5, 8:35 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 5, 1:20 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 218 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: 616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 575 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 604 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 12.6

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The text

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

984 
WFUS53 KLMK 051738
TORLMK
KYC021-155-051830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
138 PM EDT MON MAY 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOYLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  EASTERN MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 230 PM EDT

* AT 132 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 5 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF GRAVEL SWITCH...OR ABOUT 46 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PERRYVILLE...MITCHELLSBURG AROUND 150 PM EDT
  PARKSVILLE AROUND 155 PM EDT
  DANVILLE...JUNCTION CITY AROUND 205 PM EDT

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 3754 8508 3755 8518 3763 8518 3768 8502
          3771 8476 3762 8467 3754 8489

$$

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	39 min
May 5, 2:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	35 min
May 5, 6:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	53 min
May 5, 6:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	47 min
May 5, 7:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	35 min
May 5, 7:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby	29 min
May 5, 7:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Spencer	29 min
May 5, 7:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	36 min
May 5, 7:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	33 min
May 5, 7:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	30 min
May 5, 7:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	23 min
May 5, 7:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	36 min
May 5, 8:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer, Woodford	28 min
May 5, 8:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	18 min
May 5, 8:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	29 min
May 5, 8:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	32 min
May 5, 10:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	43 min
May 5, 1:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	34 min
May 5, 1:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	34 min
May 5, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer, Washington	36 min
May 5, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	30 min
May 5, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	24 min
May 5, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	44 min
May 5, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	38 min
May 5, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	51 min
May 5, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	24 min
May 5, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland	55 min
May 5, 5:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	31 min
May 5, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nicholas	31 min
May 5, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	59 min
May 5, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	36 min
May 5, 7:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	3 hr
May 5, 7:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby	35 min

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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.