Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 10:31 PM EDT for McCreary County, Whitley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 24, 2001, 10:31 PM EDT (02:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties McCreary County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Whitley City, KY | |
| Oct 24, 10:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Countywide, KY | Numerous trees were blown all 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
364 WFUS53 KJKL 250231 TORJKL KYC147-235-250315- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 1031 PM EDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WHITLEY COUNTY MCCREARY COUNTY * UNTIL 1115 PM EDT * AT 1031 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 4 MILES NORTH OF CUMBERLAND FALLS STATE RESORT PARK...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF WILLIAMSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CORBIN AROUND 1040 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING...IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 AM EDT THURSDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3700 8437 3667 8462 3655 8442 3694 8410 $$ HEINLEIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery, Powell | 51 min |
| Oct 24, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 51 min |
| Oct 24, 9:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 10:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Rockcastle | 44 min |
| Oct 24, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 57 min |
| Oct 24, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 53 min |
| Oct 24, 10:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 10:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 50 min |
| Oct 24, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Leslie, Perry | 57 min |
| Oct 24, 11:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 39 min |
| Oct 24, 11:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson | 46 min |
| Oct 24, 11:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 59 min |
| Oct 24, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 48 min |
| Oct 24, 11:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 41 min |
| Oct 24, 11:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 60 min |
| Oct 24, 11:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 49 min |
| Oct 25, 12:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.