Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2001, 8:52 PM EDT for Grant County, Owen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 5, 2001, 8:52 PM EDT (00:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2001, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Grant County, KY, Owen County, KY
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 5, 9:14 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | New Columbus, KY |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KILN 060052 TORILN KYC081-187-060115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 852 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... GRANT COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... OWEN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 915 PM EDT... * AT 852 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 10 MILES EAST OF OWENTON...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WILLIAMSTOWN...STATIONARY. * SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE... WILLIAMSTOWN... OWENTON... DRY RIDGE... COUNTY OFFICIALS REPORT A FUNNEL CLOUD NEAR CORINTH. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION. $$ TIPTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Owen | 80 min |
| Jun 6, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Owen | 3 hr |
| Jun 6, 6:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Grant, Pendleton | 3 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.