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Tornado Warning 47, NWS Louisville, KY

June 12, 2004Edmonson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 12, 2004, 1:00 PM CDT for Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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 12, 2004, 1:00 PM CDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 2004, 1:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Edmonson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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
Jun 12, 11:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1896 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

881 
WFUS53 KLMK 121800
TORLMK
KYC061-121830-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
100 PM CDT SAT JUN 12 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 130 PM CDT

* AT 1259 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER BEE
  SPRING...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  SWEEDEN AROUND 105 PM CDT
  BROWNSVILLE AROUND 115 PM CDT
  RHODA AROUND 125 PM CDT

LAT...LON 3732 8631 3726 8644 3708 8615 3721 8607

$$
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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 12, 11:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	89 min
Jun 12, 11:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	33 min
Jun 12, 12:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	36 min
Jun 12, 12:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	47 min
Jun 12, 12:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson	28 min
Jun 12, 1:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	38 min
Jun 12, 1:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	38 min
Jun 12, 3:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	50 min
Jun 12, 4:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	117 min

Nearby

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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.