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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 7:38 PM EST for Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 42 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 19, 2001, 7:38 PM EST (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 2001, 8:20 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Orange County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 7:55 PM EST | Hail 0.88 | Orangeville, IN |
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1405 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLMK 200040 SVRSDF INC117-200120- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 738 PM EST TUE JUN 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 820 PM EST * AT 734 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PROSPECT...OR ABOUT 53 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. EXPECT LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ORANGEVILLE AROUND 745 PM EST PAOLI AROUND 750 PM EST SYRIA AROUND 800 PM EST ORLEANS AROUND 805 PM EST LEIPSIC...BROMER AROUND 815 PM EST 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 3867 8669 3849 8669 3856 8632 3868 8632 DK
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 19, 2:19 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:19 PM EST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EDT TUE JUNE 19 2001 NEW FCST PACKAGE IS BASED ON LIMITED MODEL DATA...MM5 AND NOGAPS AVBL PLUS QUICK LOOK AT FWC GUDIANCE BASED ON LATEST NGM RUN. IN SHORT TERM...ISOLD TSTMS HV DVLPD ALG OH RVR W OF SDF IN AXIS OF LO-LVL MSTR FLUX CNVRGNC. GIVEN LIMITED SUPPORT...EXPCT ANY CELLS TO DISSIPATE THIS EVNG WITH LOSS OF MAX HTG. THEN CLR TO PTCLDY LATER TNGT. MM5 DOES SHOW AXIS OF HIGHER MEAN RH AND SOME QPF BY WED MRNG...BUT CANNOT SUBSTANTIATE THIS FCST BASED ON ITS OTHER FIELDS. THUS NO MENTION OF PCPN OVRNGT IN CURRENT ZONES. OVERALL SYNOPTIC PTRN CALLS FOR TROF AXIS TO SHIFT SEWD AND AMPLIFY NEXT FEW DAYS. THIS WL CREATE HT FALLS AND DIFFLUENT FLOW ALOFT AS WELL AS VERTICAL MOTION DUE TO AGEOSTROPHIC RESPONSE WITHIN RT ENTRANCE RGN OF UPR JET. COUPLED WITH AMPLE LOW-LVL MSTR AND INSTBLY LATE WED INTO THURS...THIS SHOULD RESULT IN SCT TO NUMEROUS SHWRS AND TSTMS LATE WED INTO THURS ACRS OUR FCST AREA. THUS WL INDICATE HIGHER PROBABILITIES WED NGT THAN LATEST FWC GUIDANCE SUGGESTS AS PCPN OCRS ALG AND AHD OF WAVY CDFNT PROGGED TO SAG ACRS OUR FCST AREA. WL KEEP HIGHER PCPN CHANCES IN SRN SECTIONS THRUOUT THE DAY THURS...WITH A CHC OF MRNG POST-FNTL SHWRS ACRS NRN SECTIONS. TIMING OF FNT AND ASSOCD PCPN STILL IN QUESTION...AND COULD END UP A BIT SLOWER OR LINGER LONGER THAN EXPECTED IF UPR TROF CAN AMPLIFY MORE THAN EXPECTED TO OUR WEST. THIS CAN BE ASSESSED LATER ONCE FULL SUITE OF MODEL DATA AGN BECOMES AVBL. ANOTHER WARM DAY ON WED...ALTHO A BIT COOLER THAN TODAY IN NRN AREAS DUE TO MORE CLD CVR. MAX TEMPS THURS TRICKY AND WL DEPEND ON FNTL POSN AND CLD CVR. AT THIS TIME...FEEL FWC HIGHS FOR THURS RUNNING A LTL TOO HIGH AND HAVE ADJUSTED DOWNWARD. .SDF...NONE. FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 8:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 29 min |
| Jun 19, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 34 min |
| Jun 20, 11:54 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 2 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001
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.