Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 11, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 3:14 PM EDT for Jackson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 30, 2004, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jackson County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:15 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 3:15 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | 3 Sw Sandgap, KY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
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 30, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 214 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220
WFUS53 KJKL 301914
TORJKL
KYC109-301945-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
314 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JACKSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY.
* UNTIL 345 PM EDT.
* AT 314 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR KERBY KNOB...OR 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF MCKEE...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
DRIP ROCK AROUND 320 PM EDT.
WIND CAVE AROUND 325 PM EDT.
FOR YOUR SAFETY MOVE TO A BASEMENT AND GET UNDER SOMETHING STURDY. IF
NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...MOVE TO THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE
BUILDING...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN A DITCH
AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.
LAT...LON 3757 8414 3757 8395 3748 8388 3746 8402
3744 8413
$$
HEINLEINThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 22 min |
| May 30, 1:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 3 hr |
| May 30, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Letcher, Perry | 51 min |
| May 30, 1:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Perry | 3 hr |
| May 30, 1:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knott | 3 hr |
| May 30, 2:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay | 28 min |
| May 30, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 35 min |
| May 30, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 49 min |
| May 30, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 47 min |
| May 30, 3:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Leslie, Letcher | 3 hr |
| May 30, 3:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 4 hr |
| May 30, 3:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay | 36 min |
| May 30, 3:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay | 4 hr |
| May 30, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 25 min |
| May 30, 4:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Knott, Perry | 4 hr |
| May 30, 4:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Leslie | 37 min |
| May 30, 4:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan | 41 min |
| May 30, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 17 min |
| May 30, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 41 min |
| May 30, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Leslie | 23 min |
| May 30, 6:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson | 49 min |
| May 30, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 42 min |
| May 30, 6:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Estill, Powell | 51 min |
| May 30, 6:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Montgomery, Powell | 4 hr |
| May 30, 7:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Powell | 44 min |
| May 30, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery | 51 min |
| May 30, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Estill | 41 min |
| May 30, 7:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.