Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2005
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 19, 2005, 7:04 PM EDT for Carroll County, Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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
- May 19, 2005, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2005, 7:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Carroll County, KY, Owen County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 192304 TORILN KYC041-187-192330- /O.NEW.KILN.TO.W.0002.050519T2304Z-050519T2330Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 704 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY NORTHWESTERN OWEN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 730 PM EDT (630 PM EST) * AT 702 PM EDT (602 PM EST)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WORTHVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL AFFECT MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF NORTHWESTERN OWEN AND SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTIES...INCLUDING EAGLE STATION... WHEATLEY...SANDERS...NEW LIBERTY...SPARTA AND BROMLEY. IF YOU ARE NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...TAKE COVER NOW MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. MOBILE HOMES AND VEHICLES SHOULD BE ABANDONED FOR MORE SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. AVOID WINDOWS LAT...LON 3861 8516 3856 8503 3860 8477 3872 8479 $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KILN 192331 SVSILN SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 731 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 KYC041-187-192341- /O.EXP.KILN.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-050519T2330Z/ CARROLL KY-OWEN KY- 731 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN OWEN AND SOUTHERN CARROLL COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 730 PM EDT... THE THUNDERSTORM HAS MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 3861 8516 3856 8503 3860 8477 3872 8479 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 38 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.