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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Louisville, KY

May 30, 2004Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 30, 2004, 10:46 PM EDT for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired: May 30, 2004, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 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, 7:55 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 234 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.

776 
WFUS53 KLMK 310246
TORLMK
INC061-310330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1046 PM EDT SUN MAY 30 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 944 PM EST(1044 PM EDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO FROM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF DEPAUW TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  VALLEY CITY...OR FROM 32 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE TO 35 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PALMYRA...RAMSEY...NEW SALISBURY...LACONIA AROUND 1055 PM EDT
  NEW MIDDLETOWN...NEW BOSTON...EVANS LANDING...CRANDALL AROUND 1100
  PM EDT
  LANESVILLE...ELIZABETH AROUND 1105 PM EDT

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3805 8623 3821 8633 3821 8619 3826 8629
          3841 8622 3841 8604 3832 8603 3823 8597
          3807 8592 3798 8603

$$
SCHOTT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 30, 9:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	58 min
May 30, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	39 min
May 30, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	55 min
May 30, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	45 min
May 30, 10:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford	36 min
May 30, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	53 min
May 30, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Scott	38 min
May 30, 11:25 PM EDT	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.