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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 7:31 PM EDT for Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports 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, 7:31 PM EDT (23:31 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Powell County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:31 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, 7:45 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Slade, KY | REPORTED BY DISPATCH. |
| May 30, 8:05 PM EDT | HAIL 1.75 | Stanton, KY | GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL ONGOING AT TIME OF REPORT. |
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, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
000
WFUS53 KJKL 302331
TORJKL
KYC197-310015-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
730 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
POWELL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY.
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT.
* AT 731 PM EDT...LAW ENFORCEMENT AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH TORNADO NEAR ROSSLYN...
OR NEAR STANTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
RURAL EAST CENTRAL POWELL COUNTY AROUND 740 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 3787 8370 3782 8366 3779 8368 3777 8375
3776 8384 3785 8391 3791 8394 3790 8385
3791 8379
$$
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, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson | 31 min |
| 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, 7:39 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.