Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Louisville, KY

June 14, 2001Russell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2001, 4:16 PM CDT for Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2001, 4:16 PM CDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2001, 4:45 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Russell County, KY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 14, 4:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 60 EJamestown, KYSeveral trees were downed in Jamestown. Power was out across portions of the city.

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1921 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -38 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1921 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
844 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jun 14, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
645 AM EDT THU JUNE 14 2001

WITH VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR IN PLACE ACROSS FA....AND SOME
OUTFLOW BOUNDAIRES IN PLACE....WILL METN A CHANC OF TRW/RW ACRSS FA
UNTIL MID.

A BETTER CHC OF TSTMS ON FRI INTO FRI NITE AS A WEAKNING COLD FRONT/TROUGH
MOVES ACRS THE FA. WILL GO WI 40 TO 60 PCT POPS ON FRI INTO FRI NITE
IN RESPONSE TO THIS SYS.

ONCE WEAK SYS CLEARS THE FA ON FRI NITE...REALLY NOT MUCH CHC OF
ANY MORE PCPN UNTIL THU.

.SDF...NONE.

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.