Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 2:56 PM EST for Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
- Jun 15, 2001, 2:56 PM EST (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 341 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1238 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLMK 151957 SVRSDF INC077-152030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 256 PM EST FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 330 PM EST * AT 252 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER KENT...OR ABOUT 35 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BELLEVIEW...CHINA...MANVILLE AROUND 305 PM EST BRYANTSBURG...CANAAN AROUND 310 PM EST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORM'S PATH...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL IT HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. XTHEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. JA
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 15, 2:45 PM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:45 PM EST, 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 325 PM EDT FRI JUNE 15 2001 MAIN FORECAST PROBLEM IS DEALING WITH THE EARLY NIGHT THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FA. A WEAK COLD FRONT MVNG ACRS FA HAS GOOD STREAMLINE CONVERGENCE ASSOCIATED WITH IT AS IT REPLACES THE VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR. THE AFTN LI'S ARE IN THE -5 TO -8 RANGE...FORTUNATELY BEST DYNAMICS WELL TO N OF FA. RMDR OF FORECAST ESSENTIALLY DRY BUT WI TH VERY WARM SUNNERLIKE TEMPS EXPECTED WELL INTO NEXT WEEK. CONTINUE TO DO ENTIRE FORECAST USING THE GFE. .SDF...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 15, 11:30 AM EST, 3 hours 26 minutes before
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>034-038-045-053-061>063-070>074- 152100- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1230 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AND A PART OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE AREA OF CONCERN IS ROUGHLY ALONG AND WEST OF A NEW CASTLE...THROUGH SHELBYVILLE AND BARDSTOWN...TO GLASGOW LINE. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AS THE FRONT APPROACHES...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED. THE PRIMARY THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTuER ACTIVATION MANY BE REQUESTED LATER TODAY.
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.