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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Louisville, KY

June 19, 2001Dubois County, Orange County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2001, 9:41 PM EST for Dubois County, Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 19, 2001, 9:41 PM EST (02:41 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2001, 10:15 PM EST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Dubois County, IN, Orange County, IN

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 19, 10:00 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	French Lick, 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, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 250 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 200243
SVRSDF

INC037-117-200315-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
  WESTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 1015 PM EST

* AT 937 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CELESTINE...OR ABOUT 54 MILES EAST OF   
  MOUNT CARMEL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTON...HILLHAM AROUND 950 PM EST
  FRENCH LICK AROUND 1000 PM EST
  GREENBRIER...WEST BADEN SPRINGS...PROSPECT AROUND 1005 PM EST
  ABYDEL AROUND 1010 PM EST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 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. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...ALON 3852 8684 3825 8680 3840 8663 3839 8651
          3865 8651

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, 7 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:19 PM EST, 7 hours 22 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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:22 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
922 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001

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

0855 PM    ORANGEVILLE               IN   .88 INCH HAIL
06/19/01   ORANGE                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jun 19, 8:39 PM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
939 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001

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

0920 PM    JASPER                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/19/01   DUBOIS                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jun 19, 9:22 PM EST, 19 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1022 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2001

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

0930 PM    CELESTINE                 IN   1 INCH HAIL
06/19/01   DUBOIS                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 7:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	42 min
Jun 19, 8:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	29 min
Jun 20, 11:54 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Perry	2 hr

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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.