Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 2004, 11:58 PM EDT for Floyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 24, 2004, 11:58 PM EDT (03:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2004, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Floyd County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
777 WFUS53 KJKL 250358 TORJKL KYC071-250430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1158 PM EDT MON MAY 24 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... FLOYD COUNTY IN KENTUCKY. * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT. * AT 1158 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR BUCKINGHAM...OR 13 MILES EAST OF HINDMAN... MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LIGON AROUND 1205 AM EDT. THIS IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS AND LIFE THREATENING SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 3746 8278 3732 8276 3729 8267 3746 8261 $$ HYSELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 43 min |
| May 24, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Powell, Wolfe | 43 min |
| May 24, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 57 min |
| May 24, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 40 min |
| May 24, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 64 min |
| May 24, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 31 min |
| May 24, 11:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Magoffin | 58 min |
| May 24, 11:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 59 min |
| May 25, 12:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 81 min |
| May 25, 12:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 52 min |
| May 25, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 25 min |
| May 25, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 50 min |
| May 25, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 30 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.