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Tornado Warning 41, NWS Jackson, KY

June 12, 2004Wayne County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 5:55 PM EDT for Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 20 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
Jun 12, 2004, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 2004, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 139 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 174 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1896 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 91 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 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.

362 
WFUS53 KJKL 122155
TORJKL
KYC231-122215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
555 PM EDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 555 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR PARMLEYSVILLE...OR 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  MONTICELLO.  THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  BURFIELD AROUND 600 PM EDT.
  PARMLEYSVILLE AROUND 605 PM EDT.
  GRIFFIN AROUND 615 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 3672 8492 3678 8480 3684 8468 3679 8465
          3661 8479 3661 8484

$$
HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 11, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher56 min
Jun 12, 2:02 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLFleming3 hr
Jun 12, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPulaski37 min
Jun 12, 2:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLRowan3 hr
Jun 12, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRowan39 min
Jun 12, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMenifee42 min
Jun 12, 3:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMenifee3 hr
Jun 12, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMcCreary39 min
Jun 12, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd47 min
Jun 12, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay39 min
Jun 12, 3:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLElliott3 hr
Jun 12, 3:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMorgan3 hr
Jun 12, 3:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLFloyd, Martin3 hr
Jun 12, 4:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLJohnson, Pike6 hr
Jun 12, 4:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLBath, Fleming6 hr
Jun 12, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd45 min
Jun 12, 4:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLEstill6 hr
Jun 12, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWayne44 min
Jun 12, 5:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLRowan5 hr
Jun 12, 5:59 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLWayne3 hr
Jun 12, 6:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMcCreary4 hr
Jun 12, 6:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLLetcher3 hr
Jun 12, 6:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLElliott2 hr
Jun 12, 6:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLMorgan2 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.