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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY

May 27, 2004Oldham County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 8:07 PM EDT for Oldham County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min. 4 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 27, 2004, 8:07 PM EDT (00:07 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2004, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oldham County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 8:16 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Goshen, KY	PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE CITY.
May 27, 8:16 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Goshen, KY	PENNY SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN THE CITY.
May 27, 8:42 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	La Grange, KY	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.
May 27, 8:42 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	La Grange, KY	NUMEROUS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

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 27, 7:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 182 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: 290 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -54 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 353 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 280007
TORLMK
KYC185-280045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
807 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  OLDHAM COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 804 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF GOSHEN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE...
  MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SKYLIGHT AROUND 815 PM EDT
  WESTPORT...BROWNSBORO AROUND 820 PM EDT
  LA GRANGE...BUCKNER AROUND 825 PM EDT
  BALLARDSVILLE AROUND 830 PM EDT

THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED TORNADOES TO THE WEST ACROSS WASHINGTON 
AND CLARK COUNTY INDIANA. 

LAT...LON 3849 8551 3838 8566 3830 8532 3849 8535

$$

JB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	51 min
May 27, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	40 min
May 27, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	37 min
May 27, 8:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Henry	36 min
May 27, 8:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Henry	32 min
May 27, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	44 min
May 27, 9:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham	115 min
May 27, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Spencer	57 min
May 27, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Shelby	42 min
May 27, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	39 min
May 27, 9:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Scott	37 min
May 27, 9:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	50 min
May 27, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Woodford	55 min
May 27, 10:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	3 hr
May 27, 10:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison	47 min
May 27, 10:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Fayette	34 min
May 27, 10:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	47 min
May 27, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Jessamine	43 min
May 27, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	52 min
May 27, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	29 min
May 28, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	45 min
May 28, 12:11 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	34 min
May 28, 12:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	44 min
May 28, 12:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	23 min
May 28, 12:22 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt	53 min
May 28, 12:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	34 min
May 28, 12:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	34 min
May 28, 12:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	42 min
May 28, 12:54 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt	2 hr
May 28, 2:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	43 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.