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Tornado Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY

May 30, 2004Harrison County, Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT for Harrison County, Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 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 30, 2004, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Harrison County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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.

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, 12:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 236 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -139 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 799 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 301954
TORLMK
INC061-175-302050-

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

*CORRECTED*

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 345 PM EST (445 PM EDT)

* AT 245 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES WEST OF
  HANCOCK CHAPEL...OR ABOUT 36 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST
  AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  HANCOCK CHAPEL...FREDERICKSBURG AROUND 305 PM EST
  PALMYRA...CENTRAL BARREN AROUND 410 PM EDT
  BRADFORD AROUND 415 PM EDT
  MARTINSBURG AROUND 320 PM EST
  NEW PEKIN...FARABEE AROUND 325 PM EST

* THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR MARENGO AT 240 PM, 
  THIS IS JUST WEST OF NORTHERN HARRISON AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON 
  COUNTIES. SEEK SHELTER NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM

* ANOTHER STORM JUST WEST OF SALEM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY AT 350 PM EST
  IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. SEEK SHELTER NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE
  SALEM AREA
 
LAT...LON 3841 8632 3834 8627 3834 8603 3856 8600

$$

JB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 2:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	34 min
May 30, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	37 min
May 30, 3:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange	39 min
May 30, 3:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	30 min
May 30, 3:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford	43 min
May 30, 3:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	31 min
May 30, 3:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison, Washington	57 min
May 30, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd	42 min
May 30, 4:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark	46 min
May 30, 4:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	43 min
May 30, 5:22 PM EDT	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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.