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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Louisville, KY

June 1, 2004Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 1, 2004, 8:34 PM EDT for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 min. 2 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: Jun 1, 2004, 8:34 PM EDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 1, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 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), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:37 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 1, 8:35 PM EDT	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 S Valley City, IN	FIRE CHIEF FROM MEADE COUNTY REPORTED SEEING A FUNNEL CLOUD ACROSS THE RIVER IN HARRISON COUNTY
Jun 1, 8:51 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	Laconia, IN

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
Jun 1, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jun 1, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 232 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

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 020034
TORLMK
INC061-020115-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 829 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER VALLEY
  CITY...OR ABOUT 31 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  CENTRAL...RAMSEY...PALMYRA AROUND 840 PM EDT
  LACONIA...CORYDON...CRANDALL...NEW SALISBURY AROUND 845 PM EDT
  DOGWOOD...NEW MIDDLETOWN...BYRNEVILLE AROUND 850 PM EDT

NUMEROUS REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS AND ROTATING WALL CLOUDS HAVE BEEN 
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. ONE OF THESE COULD DROP DOWN AND TOUCHDOWN 
AT ANY MOMENT. ALSO, LARGE HAIL AND STRONG WINDS ARE LIKELY. THE 
HIGHEST THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER AND A TORNADO IS ACROSS THE 
SOUTHERN HALF OF HARRISON COUNTY.

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 3806 8627 3818 8626 3841 8625 3841 8604
          3831 8604 3821 8596 3802 8592 3800 8609

$$
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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 1, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	37 min
Jun 1, 9:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	31 min
Jun 1, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	33 min
Jun 1, 9:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	32 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.