Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Louisville, KY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 43 min |
| Jun 27, 6:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Butler | 90 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.