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Tornado Warning 48, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 2004Nelson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 13, 2004, 9:19 PM EDT for Nelson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 16 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 13, 2004, 9:19 PM EDT (01:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2004, 9:35 PM EDT
In force: 16 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Nelson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 124 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.

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 140119
TORLMK
KYC179-140135-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
918 PM EDT SUN JUN 13 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN NELSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 935 PM EDT

* AT 914 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR          
  BARDSTOWN...OR ABOUT 34 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING     
  NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADIC STORM IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  NAZARETH...SAMUELS AROUND 925 PM EDT
  COXS CREEK...FAIRFIELD...BLOOMFIELD AROUND 930 PM EDT

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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 3783 8564 3769 8545 3790 8521 3796 8519
          3794 8540 3798 8550

$$
KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	23 min
Jun 13, 9:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	27 min
Jun 13, 10:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	30 min
Jun 13, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	36 min
Jun 13, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette	38 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.