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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY

May 10, 2016Wayne County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 10, 2016, 10:05 PM EDT for Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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: May 10, 2016, 10:05 PM EDT (02:05 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2016, 10:36 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 2.75 in

County Wayne County, KY

The radar

The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:05 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
May 10, 10:07 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	4 W Mill Springs, KY	STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT THE LAKE CUMBERLAND CAMPGROUND JUST OFF HWY 2393. SEVERAL DISEASED/WEAKENED TREES SNAPPED AND ONE UPROOTED.
May 10, 10:09 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	7 N Monticello, KY	SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN.

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
May 10, 6:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 1257 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1467 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 276 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.3

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

108 
WFUS53 KJKL 110205
TORJKL
KYC231-110245-
/O.NEW.KJKL.TO.W.0002.160511T0205Z-160511T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1005 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
    
* AT 1005 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR STEUBENVILLE...OR NEAR MONTICELLO...MOVING
  EAST AT 30 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO AND BASEBALL 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...
  STEUBENVILLE AND MILL SPRINGS AROUND 1015 PM EDT. 
  BETSEY AROUND 1020 PM EDT. 
  GREGORY AND FRAZER AROUND 1025 PM EDT. 
  DELTA...KIDDER AND DENNEY AROUND 1030 PM EDT. 
  RITNER AROUND 1035 PM EDT. 

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 3696 8466 3688 8460 3689 8459 3687 8458
      3685 8459 3685 8457 3684 8459 3682 8458
      3681 8459 3679 8463 3688 8493 3695 8493
TIME...MOT...LOC 0205Z 277DEG 25KT 3691 8486 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...2.75IN

$$

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1 follow-up statement

247 
WWUS53 KJKL 110236
SVSJKL

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1036 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

KYC231-110244-
/O.CAN.KJKL.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-160511T0245Z/
WAYNE KY-
1036 PM EDT TUE MAY 10 2016

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
    
THE TORNADO THREAT HAS DIMINISHED...THEREFORE THE TORNADO WARNING
HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS REMAIN
POSSIBLE AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR 
PORTIONS OF WAYNE COUNTY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.


LAT...LON 3696 8466 3688 8460 3689 8459 3687 8458
      3685 8459 3685 8457 3684 8459 3682 8458
      3681 8459 3679 8463 3688 8493 3695 8493
TIME...MOT...LOC 0233Z 277DEG 25KT 3688 8460 

$$

HAL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Breathitt	28 min
May 10, 8:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan and 2 more	3 hr
May 10, 8:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin, Perry	44 min
May 10, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley, Wolfe	39 min
May 10, 8:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Morgan, Wolfe	3 hr
May 10, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin	59 min
May 10, 8:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Jackson, Knott, Lee, Magoffin and 2 more	3 hr
May 10, 8:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 10, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	76 min
May 10, 9:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Martin, Pike	62 min
May 10, 9:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming	3 hr
May 10, 9:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knott, Pike	41 min
May 10, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Pike	52 min
May 10, 9:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Pike	3 hr
May 10, 9:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	57 min
May 10, 9:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	2 hr
May 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	24 min
May 10, 10:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	3 hr
May 10, 10:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	49 min
May 10, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	17 min
May 10, 10:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	28 min
May 10, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski	40 min
May 10, 11:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	14 min
May 10, 11:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	49 min
May 10, 11:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan	4 hr
May 10, 11:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Whitley	42 min
May 10, 11:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill, Jackson, Lee, Owsley, Powell, Pulaski and 2 more	5 hr
May 10, 11:58 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 12:02 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Knott, Magoffin, Perry, Pike	6 hr
May 11, 12:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Pulaski	33 min
May 11, 12:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Breathitt, Floyd, Johnson, Lee, Magoffin, Martin and 3 more	3 hr
May 11, 12:55 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 1:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski	3 hr
May 11, 1:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Clay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, McCreary, Perry and 3 more	3 hr
May 11, 2:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Knox	41 min
May 11, 2:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	McCreary	67 min
May 11, 2:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Bell, Whitley	66 min
May 11, 2:57 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 3:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more	3 hr
May 11, 3:40 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel, Pulaski, Whitley	3 hr
May 11, 5:09 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley	2 hr
May 11, 6:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle	3 hr
May 11, 7:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	Bell, Harlan, Knox	3 hr
May 11, 11:13 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Estill	4 days
May 11, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	JKL	Rowan	32 min
May 11, 6:24 PM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	Lee	36 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.