Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 3, 2007, 9:30 PM EDT for Clay County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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
- Apr 3, 2007, 9:30 PM EDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2007, 10:06 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Clay County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 283 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
- 1678 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KJKL 040130 TORJKL KYC051-040215- /O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0005.070404T0130Z-070404T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 930 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT * AT 926 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HIGH KNOB...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF MANCHESTER...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... LAUREL CREEK...MILL POND...ALGER AND BERNICE BY 935 PM EDT... AMMIE...FELTY...WILD CAT AND TANKSLEY BY 940 PM EDT... TEGES AND HENSLEY BY 945 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HALF DOLLAR SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3736 8390 3718 8390 3713 8353 3732 8355 $$ GREIF
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KJKL 040206 SVSJKL SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1006 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2007 KYC051-040216- /O.CAN.KJKL.TO.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070404T0215Z/ CLAY KY- 1006 PM EDT TUE APR 3 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STRONGEST STORMS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNING AREA. LIGHTNING AND THUNDER WILL CONTINUE UNTIL 10:30 PM EDT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3736 8390 3718 8390 3713 8353 3732 8355 $$ JACOBSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 52 min |
| Apr 3, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee | 36 min |
| Apr 3, 8:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 8:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 41 min |
| Apr 3, 8:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 40 min |
| Apr 3, 8:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski | 66 min |
| Apr 3, 8:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley, Rockcastle | 48 min |
| Apr 3, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Magoffin | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 51 min |
| Apr 3, 9:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Apr 3, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 59 min |
| Apr 3, 9:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel | 34 min |
| Apr 3, 9:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Whitley | 39 min |
| Apr 3, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie, Perry | 56 min |
| Apr 3, 9:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 28 min |
| Apr 3, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Leslie | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 38 min |
| Apr 3, 10:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 54 min |
| Apr 4, 4:25 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 30 hr |
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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.