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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Jackson, KY

April 26, 2007Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 26, 2007, 8:13 PM EDT for Fleming County, Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 15 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 26, 2007, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2007, 8:28 PM EDT
In force: 15 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Fleming County, KY, Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:16 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
Apr 26, 4:18 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 118 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: 599 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 829 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 159 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 270013
TORJKL
KYC069-205-270045-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0007.070427T0013Z-070427T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
813 PM EDT THU APR 26 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  FLEMING COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY  ROWAN COUNTY IN EAST
  CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 812 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING
  A TORNADO NEAR WALTZ...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTH OF MOREHEAD...MOVING
  EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE
  INDICATED COUNTY.

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.

LAT...LON 3844 8358 3827 8350 3842 8288 3863 8298

$$

JACOBSON

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KJKL 270028
SVSJKL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
827 PM EDT THU APR 26 2007

KYC069-205-270037-
/O.CAN.KJKL.TO.W.0007.000000T0000Z-070427T0045Z/
FLEMING KY-ROWAN KY-
827 PM EDT THU APR 26 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTH CENTRAL ROWAN AND EAST CENTRAL
FLEMING COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT THREATENED THE AREA HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA AND NO 
LONGER POSES ANY THREAT. HOWEVER...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT 
UNTIL 11 PM EDT.

LAT...LON 3844 8358 3827 8350 3842 8288 3863 8298

$$

RAY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	30 min
Apr 26, 8:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery	29 min
Apr 26, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee	37 min
Apr 26, 8:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan, Rowan	42 min
Apr 26, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	44 min
Apr 26, 9:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Elliott	36 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.