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Tornado Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 2003Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 7:31 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 8, 2003, 7:31 PM EST (00:31 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 8:00 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), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 8, 5:15 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 1485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 791 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.1

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The text

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

530 
WFUS53 KLMK 090031
TORLMK
INC123-090100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
731 PM EST THU MAY 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 PM EST

* AT 727 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER TELL
  CITY...OR ABOUT 57 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  DODD AROUND 740 PM EST
  GERALD AROUND 745 PM EST
  DERBY AROUND 750 PM EST

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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 3811 8680 3794 8686 3784 8661 3801 8651

$$

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	43 min
May 9, 1:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	18 min
May 9, 1:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	35 min
May 9, 1:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	21 min
May 9, 2:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	32 min
May 9, 2:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	50 min
May 9, 2:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	36 min
May 9, 3:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	60 min
May 9, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	30 min
May 9, 3:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	51 min
May 9, 4:22 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	113 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.