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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 2001Woodford County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT for Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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 13, 2001, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2001, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Woodford County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 4:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Versailles, KY	Several trees were downed by thunderstorm winds.

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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 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

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The text

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

025 
WUUS53 KLMK 132003
SVRSDF
KYC239-132030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
400 PM EDT WED JUN 13 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WOODFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 357 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WOODFORD COUNTY...ABOUT 17 MILES 
WEST OF LEXINGTON. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING TO THE SOUTHWEST. 

THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL 
...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

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 3785 8472 3814 8464 3817 8479 3809 8486
          3793 8481

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, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 3:18 PM EDT, 42 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, 3:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	29 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.