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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

November 15, 2005Hancock County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 15, 2005, 4:35 PM CST for Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 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: Nov 15, 2005, 4:35 PM CST (22:35 UTC)
Expired: Nov 15, 2005, 4:52 PM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Hancock County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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
Nov 15, 2:01 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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: 680 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 257 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 152236
TORLMK
KYC091-152300-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0013.051115T2235Z-051115T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
435 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 500 PM CST

* AT 434 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  LEWISPORT...OR ABOUT 57 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MOUNT CARMEL...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  LEWISPORT BY 440 PM CST

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 OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM CST TUESDAY AFTERNOON 
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTHWEST KENTUCKY. A TORNADO WATCH 
ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH 
CENTRAL INDIANA AND KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3790 8705 3784 8691 3792 8678 3799 8683
      3796 8692

$$
TWF

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 152252
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
551 PM EST TUE NOV 15 2005

KYC091-152301-
/O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0013.000000T0000Z-051115T2300Z/
HANCOCK KY-
451 PM CST TUE NOV 15 2005

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN HANCOCK COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

THE STORM HAS MOVED NORTHEAST OUT OF THE COUNTY.

A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CST TUESDAY 
EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3790 8705 3784 8691 3792 8678 3799 8683
      3796 8692

$$

SCHOTT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 15, 1:49 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	26 min
Nov 15, 4:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	39 min
Nov 15, 5:29 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	31 min
Nov 15, 5:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	37 min
Nov 15, 5:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	16 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.