Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2004
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 27, 2004, 10:26 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min. 10 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
- May 27, 2004, 10:26 PM EDT (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2004, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fayette County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:28 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lexington, KY | ROOFING MATERIAL ON PARTS OF CITATION ROAD NEAR I-75 EXIT 115. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lexington, KY | ROOFING MATERIAL ON PARTS OF CITATION ROAD NEAR I-75 EXIT 115. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lexington, KY | TREE LIMBS DOWN ON I-75 NEAR MILE MAKER 115 |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lexington, KY | TREE LIMBS DOWN ON I-75 NEAR MILE MAKER 115 |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lexington, KY | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTY. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Lexington, KY | NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND POWER LINES DOWN ACROSS THE ENTIRE COUNTY. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TORNADO | Lexington, KY | POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON THE WEST SIDE OF LEXINGTON.VERNDALE ROAD NUMEROUS HOUSES DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TORNADO | Lexington, KY | POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN ON THE WEST SIDE OF LEXINGTON.VERNDALE ROAD NUMEROUS HOUSES DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TORNADO | Lexington, KY | POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT LEESTOWN ROAD AND NEW CIRCLE AND VERSAILES ROAD AT NEW CIRCLE. REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO TREES AND HOMES. |
| May 27, 10:30 PM EDT | TORNADO | Lexington, KY | POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN AT LEESTOWN ROAD AND NEW CIRCLE AND VERSAILES ROAD AT NEW CIRCLE. REPORTS OF DAMAGE TO TREES AND HOMES. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 162 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
803 WFUS53 KLMK 280226 TORLMK KYC067-280300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1026 PM EDT THU MAY 27 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEXINGTON * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 1022 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO OVER LEXINGTON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3814 8463 3801 8467 3796 8432 3819 8438 $$ JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Oldham | 38 min |
| May 27, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 51 min |
| May 27, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 40 min |
| May 27, 8:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 37 min |
| May 27, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry | 36 min |
| May 27, 8:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry | 32 min |
| May 27, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 44 min |
| May 27, 9:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 115 min |
| May 27, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Spencer | 57 min |
| May 27, 9:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Shelby | 42 min |
| May 27, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 39 min |
| May 27, 9:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 37 min |
| May 27, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 50 min |
| May 27, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Woodford | 55 min |
| May 27, 10:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| May 27, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison | 47 min |
| May 27, 10:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 47 min |
| May 27, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine | 43 min |
| May 27, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 52 min |
| May 27, 11:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 29 min |
| May 28, 12:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 45 min |
| May 28, 12:11 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 34 min |
| May 28, 12:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 44 min |
| May 28, 12:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 23 min |
| May 28, 12:22 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 53 min |
| May 28, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 34 min |
| May 28, 12:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 34 min |
| May 28, 12:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 42 min |
| May 28, 12:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 2 hr |
| May 28, 2:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 43 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.