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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 2003Breckinridge County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 8, 2003, 7:44 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 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, 7:44 PM CDT (00:44 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2003, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Breckinridge County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:47 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 CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 197 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.

186 
WFUS53 KLMK 090044
TORLMK
KYC027-090130-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 742 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER ROME...OR
  ABOUT 49 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  ROME AROUND 750 PM CDT
  UNION STAR AROUND 755 PM CDT
  WEBSTER AROUND 805 PM CDT
  IRVINGTON...GARFIELD AROUND 810 PM CDT
  BIG SPRING...CUSTER AROUND 820 PM CDT

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.

LAT...LON 3804 8656 3787 8668 3769 8627 3785 8612

$$

JB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 8, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	56 min
May 8, 8:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	47 min
May 8, 9:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	28 min
May 8, 9:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Madison	2 hr
May 8, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	37 min
May 9, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	36 min
May 9, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	34 min
May 9, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby	43 min
May 9, 4:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	44 min
May 9, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	34 min
May 9, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	43 min
May 9, 4:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon	38 min
May 9, 4:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott, Woodford	39 min
May 9, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	47 min
May 9, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	30 min
May 9, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	50 min
May 9, 5:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	43 min
May 9, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	17 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.