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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Jackson, KY

May 31, 2004Morgan County, Wolfe County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2004, 2:10 AM EDT for Morgan County, Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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 31, 2004, 2:10 AM EDT (06:10 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2004, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Morgan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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 30, 9:20 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 778 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 316 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 399 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.7
Supercell composite: 9.6

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 310610
TORJKL
KYC175-237-310645-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
210 AM EDT MON MAY 31 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MORGAN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY.
  WOLFE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY.

* UNTIL 245 AM EDT.

* AT 210 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR TOLIVER...OR 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMPTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CANNEL CITY AROUND 215 AM EDT.
  CANEY AROUND 220 AM EDT.
  WILLIAMS AROUND 225 AM 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 3788 8313 3780 8324 3771 8326 3772 8350
          3789 8349 3789 8301

$$
HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	45 min
May 30, 8:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Powell	36 min
May 30, 8:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	44 min
May 30, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	42 min
May 30, 8:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Menifee, Morgan	4 hr
May 30, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Wolfe	38 min
May 30, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	50 min
May 30, 8:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Estill	38 min
May 30, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	48 min
May 30, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	39 min
May 30, 8:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Wolfe	4 hr
May 30, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	47 min
May 30, 9:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	50 min
May 30, 9:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	48 min
May 30, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	43 min
May 30, 9:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell, Wolfe	40 min
May 30, 9:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson	83 min
May 30, 9:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson	6 hr
May 30, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson	51 min
May 30, 9:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Breathitt	24 min
May 30, 9:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd	6 hr
May 30, 9:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott	48 min
May 30, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	47 min
May 30, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	30 min
May 30, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	44 min
May 30, 10:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Floyd	36 min
May 30, 10:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath	6 hr
May 30, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee	45 min
May 30, 10:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Montgomery, Powell	6 hr
May 30, 10:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pike	52 min
May 30, 11:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	44 min
May 30, 11:02 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	6 hr
May 30, 11:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Magoffin	41 min
May 30, 11:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Martin	6 hr
May 30, 11:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	49 min
May 30, 11:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	46 min
May 31, 12:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe	6 hr
May 31, 12:11 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pike	49 min
May 31, 12:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	66 min
May 31, 12:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	60 min
May 31, 12:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	41 min
May 31, 12:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Estill, Fleming, Jackson, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more	66 min
May 31, 12:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Estill, Fleming, Jackson, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more	63 min
May 31, 1:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pike	42 min
May 31, 1:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary	54 min
May 31, 1:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	67 min
May 31, 1:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath	33 min
May 31, 1:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	42 min
May 31, 1:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Lee, Menifee, Owsley, Whitley and 1 more	66 min
May 31, 1:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Morgan, Perry	52 min
May 31, 1:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Elliott, Rowan	65 min
May 31, 2:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Leslie, Magoffin	53 min
May 31, 2:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Breathitt	62 min
May 31, 2:20 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bell, Knox	40 min
May 31, 2:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott	64 min
May 31, 2:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott	63 min
May 31, 2:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay	3 hr
May 31, 2:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher, Pike	56 min
May 31, 2:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	66 min
May 31, 2:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher, Pike	50 min
May 31, 2:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	65 min
May 31, 2:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher, Pike	49 min
May 31, 3:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson	4 hr
May 31, 3:01 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Johnson	29 min
May 31, 3:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Johnson	28 min
May 31, 3:05 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	55 min
May 31, 3:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Harlan, Letcher	6 hr
May 31, 4:55 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Letcher and 6 more	6 hr

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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.