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Tornado Warning 32, NWS Louisville, KY

May 30, 2004Franklin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 5:42 PM EDT for Franklin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 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, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Franklin County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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.

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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

516 
WFUS53 KLMK 302142
TORLMK
KYC073-302230-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 541 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 9 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF FRANKFORT...OR ABOUT 31 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON...
  MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  FRANKFORT AROUND 555 PM EDT
  FORKS OF ELKHORN AROUND 605 PM EDT

LAT...LON 3829 8499 3813 8504 3818 8477 3830 8480

$$

JD/JB

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, 4:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson	23 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, 5:47 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.