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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Jackson, KY

June 25, 2001Whitley County, Kentucky

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 25, 1:38 PM EDTThunderstorm WindWilliamsburg, KYStrong 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 29 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMartin43 min
Jun 25, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher, Perry45 min
Jun 25, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLKnox26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2001Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.