Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2001, 6:18 PM CDT for Adair County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 25, 2001, 6:18 PM CDT (23:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 25, 2001, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Adair County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 1282 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1006 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 2:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EDT WED JUL 25 2001 SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN THE UNSTABLE AIRMASS ACROSS THE COUNTY FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON. MODELS ARE CONSISTENT ON BRINGING A COOL FRONT TO THE OHIO RIVER BY 12Z THURSDAY MORNING. AT THE SAME TIME A WEAK S/W WILL MOVE ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE NORTHERN CFA OVERNIGHT AND GRADUALLY SPREAD SOUTH DURING THE DAY THURSDAY. SOME LOCATIONS, ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY, MAY RECEIVE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND WE WILL WORD FORECAST ACCORDINGLY. THE FRONT WILL DROP TO TENNESSEE THURSDAY NIGHT AND BECOME STATIONARY. ON FRIDAY WE WILL GO WITH A DRY FORECAST OVER THE NORTH BUT WILL HOLD ONTO LOW POPS OVER THE SOUTH WITH THE FRONT IN THE VICINITY. THE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO WORK NORTH ON SATURDAY AND THE HIGH HUMIDITY WILL RETURN ALONG WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. .SDF...NONE JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 90 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.