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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Louisville, KY

June 15, 2001Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2001, 8:00 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Warren County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 482 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -1.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 160101
SVRSDF
KYC227-160130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
800 PM CDT FRI JUN 15 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 758 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HADLEY...OR ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF BOWLING
  GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROCKFIELD AROUND 820 PM CDT
  BOWLING GREEN...RICH POND...PLUM SPRINGS AROUND 825 PM CDT
  PLANO...ALVATON...BOYCE AROUND 830 PM CDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY DAMAGING WINDS.
IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORMS 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. THEY
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 CDT, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:45 PM CDT, 5 hours 15 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 WITH VERY WARM SUNNERLIKE TEMPS
EXPECTED WELL INTO NEXT WEEK.

CONTINUE TO DO ENTIRE FORECAST USING THE GFE.

.SDF...NONE.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 15, 5:35 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
635 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0625 PM    NICHOLASVILLE             KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/01   JESSAMINE                      POWER LINES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 15, 6:12 PM CDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
712 PM EDT FRI JUN 15 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0645 PM    LEXINGTON                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/15/01   FAYETTE                        TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          NORTHEAST PORTIONS OF
                                          THE COUNTY. REPORTED BY
                                          LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

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.