Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 6:27 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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 15, 2001, 6:27 PM EDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2001, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Fayette County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 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 15, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Countywide, 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 169 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 152230 SVRSDF KYC067-152300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 627 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... FAYETTE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LEXINGTON * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 623 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON NEAR NICHOLASVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT THE LEXINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA THROUGH 700 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING V#ERY 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. LAT...LON 3799 8462 3788 8444 3805 8430 3815 8455 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 15, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 3:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 42 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, 12:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 57 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.