Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 175, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2001, 1:36 PM EDT for Gallatin County, Kentucky; Switzerland County, Indiana. It was in force for 39 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2001, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2001, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Switzerland County, IN, Gallatin County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, IN | Numerous trees were knocked down across the county and a barn roof was blown off in Patriot. |
| Jul 8, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Countywide, KY | Numerous trees knocked down across the county. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 3052 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.8
- Supercell composite
- 9.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KILN 081737 SVRILN INC155-KYC077-081815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1236 PM EST SUN JUL 8 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SWITZERLAND COUNTY IN INDIANA... GALLATIN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 115 PM EST(215 PM EDT)... * AT 1236 PM EST(136 PM EDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WARSAW...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF RISING SUN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WARSAW... THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMA5GING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. $$ TIPTON
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 8, 10:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 10:57 AM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1056 AM EDT SAT JUL 7 2001 JUST UPDATED ZONES TO ACCOUNT FOR SEVERE WATCH FOR TRI-STATE... RICHMOND AND DAYTON. KIND SHOWING LINE OF STORMS SOUTHWEST OF KLAF MOVING SOUTHEAST ALONG STATIONARY BOUNDARY. THE STATION BOUNDARY EXTENDS INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO AND THEN FOLLOWS THE OHIO RIVER. MORNING SOUNDING ALREADY SHOWING >2000 J/KG AND EXPECT THAT WILL CLIMB OVER TO 3000 TO 4000 J/KG. 06Z MODEL RUNS DID NOT SHOW MUCH IN THE WAY OF LIFT THIS AFTERNOON ALONG BOUNDARY BUT WITH CONVECTION ALREADY INITIATED AND PLENTY OF INSTABILITY THERE IS NO REASON TO SUSPECT IT WILL WANE. IN FACT...BOUNDARY SEEMS TO STRENGTHEUN TO SOME DEGREE AS NORTHERLY RELATIVELY COOLER AIR ENCROACHES FROM THE NORTH. .ILN...NONE. TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 1:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Mason | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Grant | 40 min |
| Jul 8, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 65 min |
| Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Robertson | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Franklin | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Fayette, Union, Wayne | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 7:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley | 49 min |
Nearby
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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.