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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Wilmington, OH

July 8, 2001Bracken County, Robertson County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2001, 9:08 PM EDT for Bracken County, Robertson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2001, 9:08 PM EDT (01:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2001, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bracken County, KY, Robertson County, KY

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, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 1437 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 6.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 8:49 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:49 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
850 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2001

WL UPDATE ZONES SHORTLY TO DROP PART OF WATCH ACRS WRN FA. WL ALSO
REMOVE POPS FM FAR N AND ADJUST WORDINJG ELSWR.

.ILN...NONE.

LOTT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:30 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
830 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
>
0815 PM    COUNTYWIDE                IN   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   DEARBORN                       TREES DOWN

WILKINSON

Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:42 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
842 PM EDT SUN JUL 08 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0830 PM    COUNTYWIDE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/08/01   BOONE                          TREES DOWN

WILKINSON

Local storm report, Jul 8, 8:55 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 9:06 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Boone, Carroll, Gallatin	48 min
Jul 8, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant, Owen	64 min
Jul 8, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	39 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.