Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 1:38 PM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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 21, 2001, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 2:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ohio County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 832 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1106 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 211839 SVRSDF KYC183-211915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 138 PM CDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY * UNTIL 215 PM CDT * AT 136 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HEFLIN...OR ABOUT 48 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CENTERTOWN...HEFLIN AROUND 145 PM CDT BEDA...MCHENRY AROUND 150 PM CDT HARTFORD...BEAVER DAM AROUND 155 PM CDT DUNDEE AROUND 205 PM CDT ROSINE AROUND 210 PM CDT BAIZETOWN...OLATON AROUND 215 PM CDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY 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. COX
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 21, 2:11 AM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 2:11 AM CDT, 11 hours 27 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 AM EDT THU JUNE 21 2001 SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA HAVE BEEN SLOW TO MOVE INTO OUR COUNTY FORECAST AREA. I FEEL THIS PRECIPITATION WILL REMAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER THIS MORNING AS IT DIMINISHES. MODELS AREA IN AGREEMENT ON BRINGING A VIGOROUS S/W CURRENTLY OVER SOUTH DAKOTA INTO THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY BY THIS EVENING. AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE ALONG A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHED ALONG THE OHIO RIVER AS WELL. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OVERSPREAD THE CFA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE AND THE SPC HAS INDICATED A SLIGHT RISK EXISTS FOR OUR CFA. THE BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN WILL REMAIN ALONG AND NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER AND SOME LOCATIONS MAY SEE AN ADDITIONAL INCH TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN IN HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS. A SECOND S/W WILL DROP INTO THE EASTERN U.S. TROF ON FRIDAY BUT MOISTURE WILL BE LIMITED AND I DO NOT EXPECT ANY MORE PRECIPITATION AFTER TONIGHT. MOS TEMPERATURES LOOK GOOD AND WILL REMAIN TRICKY DEPENDING ON CLOUD COVER. .SDF...NONE. JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 5:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 31 min |
| Jun 21, 5:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton | 25 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.