Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004

Tornado Warning 43, NWS Louisville, KY

June 1, 2004Meade County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2004, 8:20 PM EDT for Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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: Jun 1, 2004, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 25 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Meade County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 1, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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: 429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1670 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

250 
WFUS53 KLMK 020020
TORLMK
KYC163-020045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
819 PM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 716 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF
  WOLF CREEK...OR ABOUT 42 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT
  45 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WOLF CREEK...ANDYVILLE AROUND 825 PM EDT
  BATTLETOWN...SIROCCO...PAYNEVILLE AROUND 830 PM EDT

SPOTTERS HAVE REPORTED NUMEROUS FUNNEL CLOUDS WITH THIS STORM. ONE 
OF THESE COULD TOUCH DOWN AT ANY MOMENT.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3804 8648 3808 8643 3812 8646 3813 8631
          3805 8627 3801 8622 3797 8622 3793 8623
          3790 8628

$$
XXV

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	38 min
Jun 1, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	28 min
Jun 1, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	36 min
Jun 1, 8:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	45 min
Jun 1, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	45 min
Jun 1, 9:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	21 min
Jun 1, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	33 min
Jun 1, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	31 min
Jun 1, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	36 min
Jun 1, 11:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Ohio	3 hr
Jun 1, 11:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	46 min
Jun 2, 12:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	31 min
Jun 2, 12:42 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Grayson	3 hr
Jun 2, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	25 min
Jun 2, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	19 min
Jun 2, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	28 min
Jun 2, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	32 min
Jun 2, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	34 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2004 Every tornado warning in 2004 Tornadoes in 2004

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.