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Tornado Warning 44, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 2, 2012, 2:58 PM EST for Crawford County, Orange County, Indiana. 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
- Mar 2, 2012, 2:58 PM EST (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2012, 3:15 PM EST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crawford County, IN, Orange County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:00 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:02 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 254 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
720 WFUS53 KLMK 021958 TORLMK INC025-117-022015- /O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0044.120302T1958Z-120302T2015Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 258 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... * UNTIL 315 PM EST... * AT 255 PM EST...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD UPSTREAM AND ITS NOW NEAR FARGO...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL ALSO IMPACT... REGO... BACON... VALEENE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HEAVY RAINFALL AND LARGE HAIL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW! IF YOU WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER...CONTACT YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE. && LAT...LON 3859 8631 3836 8633 3833 8660 3852 8657 TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 252DEG 54KT 3842 8641 $$ AL
1 follow-up statement
733 WWUS53 KLMK 022011 SVSLMK SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 311 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 INC025-117-022021- /O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0044.000000T0000Z-120302T2015Z/ ORANGE IN-CRAWFORD IN- 311 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN CRAWFORD AND SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 315 PM EST... THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED AREA INTO WASHINGTON COUNTY. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY. LAT...LON 3859 8631 3836 8633 3833 8660 3852 8657 TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 252DEG 54KT 3848 8617 $$ AL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 4:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Perry | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 5:34 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 5:56 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 64 min |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Floyd | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 7:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Washington | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 9:24 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott, Washington | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 9:33 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Dubois | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 10:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Orange | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 10:07 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 23 min |
| Mar 2, 10:20 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 10:46 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott, Washington | 29 min |
| Mar 2, 11:13 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 17 min |
| Mar 2, 1:59 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 2:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 44 min |
| Mar 2, 2:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Washington | 50 min |
| Mar 2, 2:42 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange | 3 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:42 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 18 min |
| Mar 2, 3:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 39 min |
| Mar 2, 3:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 3:19 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 26 min |
| Mar 2, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 3:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 3:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 27 min |
| Mar 2, 3:39 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 3:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 3:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark | 24 min |
| Mar 2, 3:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 22 min |
| Mar 2, 3:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 20 min |
| Mar 2, 4:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 35 min |
| Mar 2, 4:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 30 min |
| Mar 2, 4:20 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 25 min |
| Mar 2, 4:27 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 3 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.