Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 3:31 PM EDT for Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 13, 2001, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Woodford County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -312 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
063 WUUS53 KLMK 131932 SVRSDF KYC239-132000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 331 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN WOODFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 400 PM EDT * AT 328 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MIDWAY...OR ABOUT 14 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MIDWAY AROUND 345 PM EDT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3813 8463 3819 8474 3812 8480 3806 8466 SCHOLZ
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 13, 3:18 PM EDT, 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:18 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EDT WED JUNE 13 2001 MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT SUGGESTING 2 MORE DAYS OF WARM HUMID AIR MASS THEN LESS HUMID AND SLIGHTLY COOLER FOR THE WEEKEND AFTER A WEAK FRONAL PASSAGE ON FRIDAY...THEN DRY INTO MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. CURRENTLY...SKY REMAINS PRTLY TO MSTLY SUNNY ACRS MUCH OF FCST AREA. NOTABLE EXCEPTION IS SMALL CLUSTER OF SLOW MOVG TSTMS THAT HAVE DVPLD NEAR AND S OF LEX ALG A CLOUD-NO CLOUD BNDRY FM NEAR CVG THRU LEX TO SME-LOZ AREA. THIS IS ALSO ALG A MID-LVL SHEAR AXIS AS EVIDENT IN WTR VPR IMAGERY AND DEPICTED IN MODELS. SCT STORMS WL CONT ALG THIS BNDRY THRU LATE AFTN INTO EARLY EVNG BEFORE DISSIPATING THEREAFTER. STGST STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL. OTHERWISE...EXPECT SKY TO BE OR BECOME MSTLY CLR TNGT WITH PATCHY FOG OVERNGT. ON THURS...MODELS CONT TO INDICATE PRESENCE OF A WEAK SHEAR AXIS ACRS ERN THIRD OF KY WITH DEFORMATION ZONE CONFLUENCE AND SINKING ALOFT JUST W OF AXIS. LO-LVL MSTR AND INSTBLY WL REMAIN...SO AGAIN IT APRS WDLY SCT TO SCT TSTMS MAY DVLP THURS AFTN ACRS PARTS OF E-CNTRL KY. WOULD THEN EXPECT NOCTURNAL DISSIPATION OF CELLS AGAIN THURS NGT. ELSEWHERE...EXPECT SCT TO BKN AFTN CU THURS AFTN BUT A CAPPED AIR MASS WL PRECLUDE TSTM DVLPMT. ON FRIDAY...SYSTEM FM THE W MOVES IN...WEAKENING SOMEWHAT AS IT DOES. HOWEVER...STILL ENOUGH FORCING AND LOW-LVL THERMODYNAMICS WL BE PRESENT FOR SCT TSTMS ACRS MUCH OF FCST AREA. .SDF...NONE. FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 30 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.