Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 5:49 PM EST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2012, 5:49 PM EST (22:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bell County, KY, Knox County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:20 PM EST | HAIL 1 | Frakes, KY | SPOTTER REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:02 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 239 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
- 1667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 523 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 6.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
621
WFUS53 KJKL 022249
TORJKL
KYC013-121-147-235-022315-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0020.120302T2249Z-120302T2315Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
549 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN BELL COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...
SOUTHWESTERN KNOX COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...
SOUTHEASTERN MCCREARY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
SOUTHEASTERN WHITLEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 615 PM EST
* AT 547 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES EAST OF ONEIDA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
70 MPH.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILLIAMSBURG...MIDDLESBORO...HOLLYHILL...ZION HILL...AYERS...
BOUNTY...JELLICO CREEK...FAIRVIEW...BON...RED ASH...MOUNTAIN ASH...
LOT...SAXTON...PLEASANT VIEW...EMLYN...WOFFORD...PACKARD...SUTTONS
MILL...YADEN AND POLLY CAMP.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A MOBILE HOME...A VEHICLE OR
OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT
YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 3659 8448 3688 8401 3660 8367 3659 8368
3658 8373
TIME...MOT...LOC 2249Z 243DEG 59KT 3653 8435
$$
RICHEYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4:00 AM EST | Lake Wind Advisory | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 17 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 9:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 42 min |
| Mar 2, 12:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 12:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 12:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Letcher | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 3:24 PM EST | River Flood Advisory | JKL | Lee | 43 hr |
| Mar 2, 5:08 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Estill, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 5:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 31 min |
| Mar 2, 5:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Wayne, Whitley | 32 min |
| Mar 2, 5:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Powell and 1 more | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan, Wolfe | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 5:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 10 min |
| Mar 2, 5:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Rowan | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 5:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Estill, Lee, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 5:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan | 33 min |
| Mar 2, 6:01 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Rowan | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Wayne, Whitley | 42 min |
| Mar 2, 6:09 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Menifee, Morgan, Powell and 1 more | 51 min |
| Mar 2, 6:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Whitley | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 6:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 6:23 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski and 3 more | 52 min |
| Mar 2, 6:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan, Rowan | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 6:34 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan, Rowan | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 6:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Morgan and 1 more | 37 min |
| Mar 2, 6:40 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Estill, Powell, Wolfe | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:41 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Whitley | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 6:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 6:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Johnson, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 6:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Rockcastle | 51 min |
| Mar 2, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 2 more | 47 min |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.