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Tornado Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY

May 30, 2004Crawford County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 9:24 PM EST for Crawford County, Indiana. It was in force for 36 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, 9:24 PM EST (02:24 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 10:00 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crawford County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:24 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, 6:55 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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: 2491 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1127 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 192 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 16.0

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The text

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

837 
WFUS53 KLMK 310224
TORLMK
INC025-310300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1000 PM EST

* AT 919 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER
  RICEVILLE...OR ABOUT 51 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  20 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  TASWELL AROUND 930 PM EST
  MIFFLIN AROUND 935 PM EST
  BROWNSTOWN AROUND 940 PM EST
  GRANTSBURG...ENGLISH...SULPHUR...SULPHUR SPRINGS AROUND 945 PM EST
  RIDDLE AROUND 950 PM EST
  CURBY...TEMPLE AROUND 955 PM EST

LAT...LON 3838 8668 3827 8667 3822 8652 3814 8644
          3819 8634 3827 8629 3839 8628

$$
KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 8:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	58 min
May 30, 9:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	39 min
May 30, 9:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	55 min
May 30, 9:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	45 min
May 30, 9:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	53 min
May 30, 9:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	44 min
May 30, 10:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Scott	38 min
May 30, 10:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	50 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.