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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY

June 4, 2014Morgan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2014, 9:52 PM EDT for Morgan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. 2 reports 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: Jun 4, 2014, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2014, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 1.5 in

County Morgan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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
Jun 4, 9:59 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Wsw Blaze, KY	TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN ON KY 519 NEAR PEYTON RIDGE
Jun 4, 9:59 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 Wsw Blaze, KY	TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS ESTIMATED TO HAVE BEEN BETWEEN 60 TO 70 MPH ON KY 519...HICKORY ROAD...BLEVINS ROAD AND IN THE ZAG AREA ON OLD 519. A HOUSE ON HICKORY ROAD HAD ROOF DAMAGE AND AN UPROOTED TREE FELL ON A METAL BUILDING IN ZAG.

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
Jun 4, 2:51 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 334 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 5.1

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The text

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

274 
WFUS53 KJKL 050152
TORJKL
KYC175-050230-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0002.140605T0152Z-140605T0230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
952 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN MORGAN COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 1030 PM EDT

* AT 949 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR PARAGON...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND PING PONG BALL SIZE HAIL.

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
           TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
           LIKELY.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BLAZE AND YOCUM AROUND 1000 PM EDT.
  WRIGLEY AROUND 1005 PM EDT.
  POMP AROUND 1010 PM EDT.
  LICK BRANCH AROUND 1015 PM EDT.
  LENOX AROUND 1020 PM EDT.
  STEELE AROUND 1025 PM EDT.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA.

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 3804 8322 3801 8319 3801 8317 3800 8315
      3801 8312 3789 8319 3801 8342 3804 8341
      3806 8338 3807 8336
TIME...MOT...LOC 0152Z 291DEG 18KT 3804 8336

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.50IN

$$

GEOGERIAN

2 follow-up statements

463 
WWUS53 KJKL 050203
SVSJKL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1003 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

KYC175-050230-
/O.CON.KJKL.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140605T0230Z/
MORGAN KY-
1003 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY
UNTIL 1030 PM EDT...

AT 959 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED NEAR YOCUM...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

HAZARD...TORNADO AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
         SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
         TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
         LIKELY.

THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LICK BRANCH AROUND 1010 PM EDT.
  LENOX AND STEELE AROUND 1015 PM EDT.

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 3804 8322 3803 8322 3801 8319 3801 8317
      3800 8315 3801 8312 3789 8319 3795 8332
      3798 8335 3806 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 0203Z 305DEG 23KT 3799 8328

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...1.00IN

$$

GEOGERIAN

464 
WWUS53 KJKL 050215
SVSJKL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1015 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

KYC175-050224-
/O.CAN.KJKL.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-140605T0230Z/
MORGAN KY-
1015 PM EDT WED JUN 4 2014

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL MORGAN COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING HAS
BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN
EFFECT FOR THE AREA.  HOWEVER...SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY
RAIN ARE STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

IN ADDITION...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY REDEVELOP...AND A TORNADO 
WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM.

LAT...LON 3804 8322 3803 8322 3801 8319 3801 8317
      3800 8315 3801 8312 3789 8319 3795 8332
      3798 8335 3806 8328
TIME...MOT...LOC 0214Z 305DEG 23KT 3795 8321

$$

GEOGERIAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Pulaski	32 min
Jun 4, 8:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	50 min
Jun 4, 8:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jun 4, 9:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Knott, Letcher	2 hr
Jun 4, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan	48 min
Jun 4, 9:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Leslie	99 min
Jun 4, 10:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan	38 min
Jun 4, 10:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 1 more	3 hr
Jun 4, 10:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Johnson, Morgan, Rowan	4 hr
Jun 4, 11:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin, Martin, Morgan, Pike	4 hr
Jun 4, 11:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Powell, Wolfe	3 hr
Jun 5, 12:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Perry	2 hr
Jun 5, 1:04 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Magoffin, Pike	116 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.