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Tornado Warning 53, NWS Louisville, KY

July 6, 2004Bourbon County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 6, 2004, 7:38 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Kentucky. It was in force for 22 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: Jul 6, 2004, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Bourbon County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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
Jul 6, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 54 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -216 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 874 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 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 062338 RRA
TORLMK
KYC017-070000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
736 PM EDT TUE JUL 6 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  BOURBON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 732 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PARIS...OR
  ABOUT 17 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHERN BOURBON COUNTY AT 750 PM EDT

WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS
THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY
ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE
LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO
NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3826 8441 3809 8433 3811 8417 3818 8401
      3834 8422

$$

DK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	35 min
Jul 6, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	62 min
Jul 6, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	20 min
Jul 6, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	38 min
Jul 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	39 min
Jul 6, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	25 min
Jul 6, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	34 min
Jul 6, 5:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	17 min
Jul 6, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	36 min
Jul 6, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	40 min
Jul 6, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby	39 min
Jul 6, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	47 min
Jul 6, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	28 min
Jul 6, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	26 min
Jul 6, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	31 min
Jul 6, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	40 min
Jul 6, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland	39 min
Jul 6, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	47 min
Jul 6, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Shelby	29 min
Jul 6, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	37 min
Jul 6, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	36 min
Jul 6, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	43 min
Jul 6, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Woodford	30 min
Jul 6, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	36 min
Jul 6, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	32 min
Jul 6, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	31 min
Jul 6, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	34 min
Jul 6, 7:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	47 min
Jul 6, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	43 min
Jul 6, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	39 min
Jul 6, 7:24 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Lincoln	36 min
Jul 6, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon	27 min
Jul 6, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	41 min
Jul 6, 7:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bourbon	37 min
Jul 6, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nicholas	43 min
Jul 6, 7:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Casey	32 min
Jul 6, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	29 min
Jul 6, 7:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	2 hr

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.