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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY

May 27, 2004Bell County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 3:14 AM EDT for Bell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report 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: May 27, 2004, 3:14 AM EDT (07:14 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bell County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:14 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
May 27, 3:30 AM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Pineville, KY	TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE...INCLUDING ALONG HIGHWAYS 190, 119, 221, AND 92.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 307 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: 116 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

729 
WFUS53 KJKL 270714
TORJKL
KYC013-270745-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
314 AM EDT THU MAY 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 AM EDT.

* AT 314 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH
  A LIKELY TORNADO NEAR VARILLA...OR 6 MILES EAST OF PINEVILLE...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CUBAGE AROUND 320 AM 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 3686 8359 3673 8374 3639 8332 3655 8313

$$

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 1:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 27, 1:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	39 min
May 27, 1:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski	33 min
May 27, 2:11 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Clay, Laurel	3 hr
May 27, 2:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	47 min
May 27, 2:33 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel	42 min
May 27, 2:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	40 min
May 27, 3:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	45 min
May 27, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Letcher, Perry	3 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.