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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Louisville, KY

June 19, 2001Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 8:11 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 min. 2 reports 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, 8:11 PM EST (01:11 UTC)
Expired
Jun 19, 2001, 8:40 PM EST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Dubois County, IN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 19, 8:20 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 60 EJasper, IN
Jun 19, 8:30 PM ESTHail 1Celestine, 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 245 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 225 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, Lincoln, IL at 00:00Z on 2001-06-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 200113 CCA
SVRSDF

INC037-200140-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
811 PM EST TUE JUN 19 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 840 PM EST

* AT 808 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER JASPER...OR ABOUT 47 MILES EAST OF MOUNT
  CARMEL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CELESTINE AROUND 835 PM EST
  DUBOIS AROUND 840 PM EST

LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL
THIS STORM 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.

LAT...LON 3841 8697 3831 8697 3838 8672 3850 8673

CS

...CORRECTED PATHCAST...

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 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:19 PM EST, 5 hours 52 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 19, 7:38 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOrange42 min
Jun 19, 9:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange34 min
Jun 20, 11:54 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry2 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.