Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 2, 2001, 6:54 PM EDT for Knox County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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
- Jun 2, 2001, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2001, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Knox County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 260 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KJKL 022255 TORJKL KYC121-022345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 654 PM EDT SAT JUN 2 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... KNOX COUNTY * UNTIL 745 PM EDT * AT 654 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER WILTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLIAMSBURG...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE... 3 MILES SOUTH OF BARBOURVILLE AT 710 PM EDT. OVER ARTEMUS AT 715 PM EDT. OVER HIMYAR AT 720 PM EDT. OVER FLAT LICK AT 725 PM EDT. 5 MILES SOUTH OF WALKER AT 730 PM EDT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT USE YOUR CAR TO TRY TO OUTRUN A TORNADO. CARS ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR AND GO TO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. 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 ANDd 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. $$ HEINLEIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 26 min |
| Jun 2, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Laurel | 21 min |
| Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay | 15 min |
| Jun 2, 6:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay | 32 min |
| Jun 2, 6:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Leslie | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 52 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.