Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 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 26, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Laurel County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 265 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
- 318 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 632 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
679 WFUS53 KJKL 262015 TORJKL KYC125-262030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 415 PM EDT WED MAY 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LAUREL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY. * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 415 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR LILY...OR 8 MILES SOUTH OF LONDON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. 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 3711 8415 3696 8416 3699 8402 3712 8401 $$ SBH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 11:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 30 min |
| May 26, 2:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 47 min |
| May 26, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 32 min |
| May 26, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 46 min |
| May 26, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 47 min |
| May 26, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 42 min |
| May 26, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 38 min |
| May 26, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 38 min |
| May 26, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 43 min |
| May 26, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 40 min |
| May 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 47 min |
| May 26, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 42 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 44 min |
| May 26, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan | 22 min |
| May 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 45 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.