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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Louisville, KY

June 4, 2001Green County, Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2001, 2:34 PM CDT for Green County, Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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: Jun 4, 2001, 2:34 PM CDT (19:34 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Green County, KY, Taylor County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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
Jun 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Hail 0.75	Saloma, KY
Jun 4, 3:00 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Saloma, KY

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
Jun 4, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 171 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 041934
SVRSDF
KYC087-217-042015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
334 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  NORTHERN TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT(315 PM CDT)

* AT 229 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER CREAL...OR ABOUT 49 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ALLENDALE AROUND 240 PM CDT
  HOBSON...SALOMA AROUND 400 PM EDT
  CAMPBELLSVILLE AROUND 405 PM EDT
  ELK HORN AROUND 410 PM EDT
  MANNSVILLE AROUND 415 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL IT HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES.

LAT...LON 3743 8572 3730 8574 3731 8523 3738 8515
          3747 8538

VLD

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 Jun 4, 2:15 PM CDT, 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 4, 2:15 PM CDT, 19 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
315 PM EDT MON JUN 4 2001

DISCUSSION WILL BE SHORTENED DUE TO SVR WX.

WARM FRONT WILL MOVE NORTH SLOWLY. WITH THIS FRONT IN THE VCNTY AND
WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR TO THE SOUTH...TSRA MAY FORM AT ABOUT ANY TIME
TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY NIGHT.  COLD FRONT FINALLY MOVES IN ON WED
BRINGING HIER POPS.

NO MODEL QPF TAKEN LITERALLY...WILL USE BLEND WITH STRESS ON ETA.
FWC/MAV CLOSE AND WILL FOLLOW.

IN BRIEF: LIKELY POPS TONIGHT S DUE TO CURRENT CONVECTION WITH 40-50
POPS ELSEWHERE. WILL USE SCTD WORDING AND 40-50 POPS TUESDAY. 30-40
POPS TUE NIGHT AND LIKELY POPS WED ALL FORECAST AREA. CHC POPS WED
NIGHT.

'.SDF...NONE.
CS

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 4, 10:30 AM CDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-
070>078-081-082-041945-

CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1130 AM EDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND
SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON.

A WARM FRONT WILL SLOWLY PUSH NORTH INTO KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON.
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP BOTH AHEAD OF THE FRONT AS IT
PUSHES NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE FRONT IN THE WARM AND UNSTABLE AIR.
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE.

THE PRIMARY THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING
WINDS.

THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION
ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE
REQUESTED THIS AFTE4RNOON.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
227 PM EDT MON JUN 04 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....U

0225 PM    HARTFORD                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/01   OHIO                           TWO TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 1:52 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
252 PM EDT MON JUN 04 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0245 PM    CANEYVILLE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/04/01   GRAYSON                        TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

Local storm report, Jun 4, 2:32 PM CDT, 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
332 PM EDT MON JUN 04 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0320 PM    SONORA                    KY   70 MPH TSTM GUST
06/04/01   HARDIN                         POWER LINES DOWN.
                                          DIME-SIZED HAIL.

0331 PM    BONNIEVILLE               KY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/04/01   HART                           REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	2 hr
Jun 4, 7:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	2 hr
Jun 4, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	47 min
Jun 4, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	24 min
Jun 4, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	26 min
Jun 4, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	32 min
Jun 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	29 min
Jun 4, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	16 min
Jun 4, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	25 min
Jun 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	37 min
Jun 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	22 min
Jun 4, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	40 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	9 min
Jun 4, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2001 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.