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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Louisville, KY

June 27, 2001Butler County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 6:29 PM CDT for Butler County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 27, 2001, 6:29 PM CDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 27, 2001, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Butler County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 120 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 430 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2001-06-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
430 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1028 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 272330
SVRSDF

KYC031-280000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
629 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 700 PM CDT

* AT 624 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DUNBAR...OR ABOUT 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ABERDEEN AROUND 635 PM CDT
  WELCHS CREEK AROUND 655 PM CDT

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.

STUREY

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 27, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
340 PM EDT WED JUNE 27 2001

FORECAST PROBLEM THIS AFTN AND EVENING IS WHAT DO WITH CHANCES FOR
RAIN THROUGHOUT THE 7 DAY FORECAST PERIOD.

AT MID AFTN LOTS OF CU THRUT AREA TSRA DVLPG OVER MUCH OF RGN.

MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT THIS RUN. WILL FOLLOW PERSISTENCE AS
WELL AS A MODEL BLEND.

WL CONT TREND OF A DAILY THRET OF TSRA PER AFTN INSTABILITIES AND
RATHER COLD POOL OVER THE AREA

.SDF...NONE.
RDC

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:14 PM CDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-
070>078-081-082-280200-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
414 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND
SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH THIS EVENING.

AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE AREA COMBINED WITH DAYTIME HEATING WILL
SET THE STAGE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
THE REGION.

WIND FIELDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE ARE RELATIVELY WEAK SO WIDESPREAD
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...A FEW OF THE
STRONGEST STORMS COULD GENERATE GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. SCATTERED
THUNDERSTORMS ALSO WILL PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND LIGHTNING.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR
THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED.
Local storm report, Jun 27, 4:59 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
559 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001

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

0535 PM    LEWISBURG                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01   LOGAN                          TREES BLOWN DOWN JUST
                                          SOUTH OF LEWISBURG.
                                          ALSO POWER LINE DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY PUBLIC.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 27, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan43 min
Jun 27, 6:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKButler90 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.