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Tornado Warning 42, NWS Jackson, KY

July 13, 2004Clay County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 13, 2004, 11:23 PM EDT for Clay County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 13, 2004, 11:23 PM EDT (03:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2004, 12:00 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Clay County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:24 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 13, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 1107 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1550 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 140323
TORJKL
KYC051-140400-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1122 PM EDT TUE JUL 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT.

* AT 1122 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR AND LOCAL POLICE INDICATED A SEVERE 
  THUNDERSTORM WITH A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR JONSEE...OR 6 MILES SOUTH 
  OF MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.  A FUNNEL CLOUD HAS BEEN 
  SPOTTED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  OGLE AROUND 1130 PM EDT.
  BRIGHTSHADE AROUND 1135 PM EDT.
  ICE CLIFF AROUND 1140 PM EDT.
  ASHERS FORK AROUND 1145 PM EDT.
  SKIDMORE AROUND 1150 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 3697 8364 3703 8376 3702 8378 3705 8387
      3717 8383 3710 8354 3709 8356 3707 8354
      3705 8355 3702 8352 3694 8351 3694 8352

$$
HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 9:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	77 min
Jul 13, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	66 min
Jul 13, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson	80 min
Jul 13, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	77 min
Jul 13, 10:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	78 min
Jul 13, 10:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox	80 min
Jul 13, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Leslie	84 min
Jul 13, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	72 min
Jul 13, 11:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	37 min
Jul 13, 11:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	49 min
Jul 14, 12:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher	40 min
Jul 14, 3:38 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	52 min
Jul 14, 7:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	47 min
Jul 14, 8:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.