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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Jackson, KY

June 1, 2004Magoffin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2004, 5:46 PM EDT for Magoffin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. 3 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: Jun 1, 2004, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Magoffin County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:49 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 1, 5:47 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	5 S Salyersville, KY	NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AT ROYALTON. ONE TREE FELL ON A TRAILER.
Jun 1, 5:47 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Ivyton, KY	OUTBUILDING DESTROYED ON BURNING FORK ROAD
Jun 1, 5:47 PM EDT	TORNADO	Royalton, KY	POSSIBLE TORNADO WITH TREES DOWN.

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
Jun 1, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1584 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

538 
WFUS53 KJKL 012146
TORJKL
KYC153-012215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
546 PM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  MAGOFFIN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 546 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR CONLEY STATION...OR 6 MILES SOUTH OF
  SALYERSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

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 3765 8310 3775 8311 3775 8296 3768 8295
          3763 8289 3757 8293 3757 8300

$$

GREIF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery	43 min
Jun 1, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	53 min
Jun 1, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	59 min
Jun 1, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	65 min
Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Montgomery	62 min
Jun 1, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	49 min
Jun 1, 4:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Powell	34 min
Jun 1, 5:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Menifee	23 min
Jun 1, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	50 min
Jun 1, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	43 min
Jun 1, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	58 min
Jun 1, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson	40 min
Jun 1, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Perry	42 min
Jun 1, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	53 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.