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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY

February 6, 2008Pulaski County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2008, 12:21 AM EST for Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 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: Feb 6, 2008, 12:21 AM EST (05:21 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2008, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Pulaski County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:25 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 362 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KJKL 060525
TORJKL
KYC199-060600-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0002.080206T0521Z-080206T0600Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1221 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 100 AM EST

* AT 1120 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 16 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF CAINS STORE...OR 12 MILES EAST OF COLUMBIA...MOVING   
  NORTHEAST AT NEARLY 60 MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  SCIENCE HILL...
  BANDY...
  CAINS STORE...
  HOGUE...
  MAGNUM.

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

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.

TO REPORT TORNADOS...DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL OR FLOODING TO THE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6
7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3734 8462 3737 8456 3731 8448 3727 8444
      3703 8491 3706 8493 3711 8493
TIME...MOT...LOC 0521Z 235DEG 56KT 3704 8509

$$
GREIF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 6, 12:21 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski	39 min
Feb 6, 12:49 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	23 min
Feb 6, 1:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Estill, Fleming, Jackson, Laurel, Lee and 7 more	53 min
Feb 6, 1:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	60 min
Feb 6, 1:41 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Fleming	49 min
Feb 6, 1:45 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	45 min
Feb 6, 1:55 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson, Rockcastle	50 min
Feb 6, 2:12 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	33 min
Feb 6, 2:16 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Breathitt, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd and 12 more	59 min
Feb 6, 2:23 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Elliott, Menifee, Morgan	40 min
Feb 6, 2:32 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Elliott	13 min
Feb 6, 2:55 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Johnson	20 min
Feb 6, 3:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Magoffin, Martin and 2 more	49 min
Feb 6, 3:49 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
Feb 6, 3:55 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	31 min
Feb 6, 4:02 AM EST	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more	12 hr
Feb 6, 4:59 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell	3 hr
Feb 6, 5:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Morgan	33 min
Feb 6, 6:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Leslie, Perry	25 min
Feb 6, 6:52 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
Feb 6, 7:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry	44 min
Feb 6, 7:33 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	42 min
Feb 6, 7:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Letcher, Pike	41 min
Feb 6, 2:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	35 min
Feb 6, 2:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	22 min
Feb 6, 3:04 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Johnson	26 min
Feb 6, 3:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Martin	32 min
Feb 6, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Martin, Perry, Pike	37 min
Feb 6, 4:41 PM EST	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	12 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.