Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 2001, 6:19 PM EDT for Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 21, 2001, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 2001, 6:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Scott County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 6:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Georgetown, KY |
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 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, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -131 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
159 WUUS53 KLMK 212220 SVRSDF KYC209-212250- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 619 PM EDT THU JUN 21 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 650 PM EDT * AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GEORGETOWN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GEORGETOWN AROUND 625 PM EDT OXFORD...NEW ZION AROUND 630 PM EDT NEWTOWN AROUND 635 PM EDT DAVIS AROUND 645 PM EDT DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL THE 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 3825 8474 3811 8464 3821 8441 3840 8449 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 21, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 21, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 AM EDT THU JUNE 21 2001 LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING EAST INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY ALONG AND AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. SOME STORMS EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. SOME SHOWERS EXPECTED TO PERSIST BEHIND FRONT AND WILL LEAVE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN OVERNIGHT. GREATEST THREAT OF SHOWERS WILL BE OVER THE NORTHERN PARTS OF THE FORECAST AREA WITH ONLY A FEW SHOWERS ACROSS THE SOUTH. MODELS GENERALLY SIMILAR...ENDING SHOWERS OVERNIGHT...THEN SLOWLY DECREASING CLOUDS FRIDAY AND HIGH BEGINS TO BUILD INTO LOWER OHIO VALLEY. SATELLITE SHOWS EXTENSIVE CLOUD AREA BEHIND FRONT AND TIME SECTIONS SHOWING HIGHER HUMIDITIES IN THE LOWER LEVELS. WILL KEEP CLOUDS ACROSS MOST OF AREA WITH SOME DECREASE LATE AFTERNOON. EXPECT PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER ON FRIDAY WITH HIGHS IN THE MID AND UPPER 70S. THEN SLOW WARMING TREND SETS IN AND HAVE MADE ONLY MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO MOS. .SDF...NONE. SCHOLZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 37 min |
| Jun 21, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton | 25 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.