Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 7:35 PM CDT for Grayson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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 27, 2001, 7:35 PM CDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2001, 8:05 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Grayson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:50 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Leitchfield, KY | Several trees were blown down. |
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS53 KLMK 280036 SVRSDF KYC085-280105- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 735 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL GRAYSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 805 PM CDT * AT 729 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTH...OR ABOUT 24 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MEREDITH...PEONIA AROUND 745 PM CDT LEITCHFIELD...GRAYSON SPRINGS AROUND 755 PM CDT CLARKSON...BIG CLIFTY AROUND 800 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. LAT...LON 3732 8649 3731 8623 3756 8615 3758 8645 SCHOLZ
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, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:38 PM CDT, 4 hours 57 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, 4 hours 21 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, 2 hours 36 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, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin | 30 min |
| Jun 28, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 28, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.