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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY

May 30, 2004Orange County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 2:11 PM EST for Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 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 30, 2004, 2:11 PM EST (19:11 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 2:50 PM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Orange County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:13 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 30, 2:23 PM EST	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 S French Lick, IN	CONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD ALONG HIGHWAY 145 MOVING NORTHEAST.

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
May 30, 11:50 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 1629 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 569 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 8.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

517 
WFUS53 KLMK 301911
TORLMK
INC117-301950-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
211 PM EST SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 250 PM EST

* AT 205 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  GREENBRIER...OR ABOUT 49 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  YOUNGS CREEK...WEST BADEN SPRINGS...PROSPECT...VALEENE AROUND 220
  PM EST
  ABYDEL AROUND 225 PM EST
  PAOLI AROUND 230 PM EST
  CHAMBERSBURG...ORANGEVILLE AROUND 235 PM EST
  SYRIA...MILLERSBURG AROUND 240 PM EST

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3867 8668 3840 8668 3841 8633 3867 8634

$$
DK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 1:11 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	34 min
May 30, 1:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	37 min
May 30, 2:15 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	30 min
May 30, 2:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford	43 min
May 30, 2:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	31 min
May 30, 2:48 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison, Washington	57 min
May 30, 2:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison, Washington	51 min
May 30, 3:18 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd	42 min
May 30, 3:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark	46 min
May 30, 3:52 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	43 min
May 30, 4:22 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clark	113 min

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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.