Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2001, 1:17 PM EDT for Whitley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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 25, 2001, 1:17 PM EDT (17:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 2001, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Whitley County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 1:38 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Williamsburg, KY | Strong thunderstorm winds brought trees and power lines down. One tree landed on a home on Kentucky Highway 92 West at Brier Creek. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1283 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 11:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 11:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1145 AM EDT MON JUN 24 2001 CURRENT RADAR HAS SHRA/TSRA KNOCKING ON THE DOORSTEP TO OUR SE. THIS IS COVERED BY CURRENT ZONES. TEMPS WITHIN REASON DUE TO INCREASING CLOUD COVERAGE AND SUFFICIENT H2O IN AIR TO ABSORP MUCH OF SOLAR HEAT. NO CHANGES PLANNED FOR ZONES BUT WILL UPDATE FOR WORDING. .JKL...NONE. DUSTY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 43 min |
| Jun 25, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Perry | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 26 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.