Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 4:37 PM EDT for Anderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports 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, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- May 30, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anderson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:38 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, 4:38 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 2 N Lawrenceburg, KY | CONFIRMED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT...MOVING NORTHEAST. |
| May 30, 4:42 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Lawrenceburg, KY | REPORTS OF 3/4 INCH AND BIGGER. |
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, 2:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
334 WFUS53 KLMK 302037 TORLMK KYC005-302100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 437 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... ANDERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 429 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LAWRENCEBURG...OR ABOUT 28 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3808 8500 3796 8496 3800 8485 3810 8488 $$ JSD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 30, 12:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 33 min |
| May 30, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 28 min |
| May 30, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 30 min |
| May 30, 3:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan | 33 min |
| May 30, 3:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 31 min |
| May 30, 3:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Oldham | 33 min |
| May 30, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 38 min |
| May 30, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 47 min |
| May 30, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 60 min |
| May 30, 4:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 30, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Woodford | 38 min |
| May 30, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 43 min |
| May 30, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Shelby | 39 min |
| May 30, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 60 min |
| May 30, 5:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 44 min |
| May 30, 5:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 113 min |
| May 30, 5:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 40 min |
| May 30, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Franklin | 48 min |
| May 30, 5:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Madison | 28 min |
| May 30, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 24 min |
| May 30, 6:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Woodford | 3 hr |
| May 30, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 27 min |
| May 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Madison | 3 hr |
| May 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Franklin | 3 hr |
| May 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 30 min |
| May 30, 7:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Scott | 3 hr |
| May 30, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 38 min |
| May 30, 7:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 3 hr |
| May 30, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 51 min |
| May 30, 7:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard | 26 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.