Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2001, 8:05 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls 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.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2001, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2001, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Breckinridge County, KY, Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 280107
SVRSDF
KYC027-093-280135-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
805 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EASTERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
WESTERN HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 835 PM CDT(935 PM EDT)
* AT 804 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MADRID...OR ABOUT 42 MILES NORTH OF
BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTH AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HUDSON...MADRID...ROFF AROUND 810 PM CDT
GARFIELD AROUND 825 PM CDT
BIG SPRING AROUND 830 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 3759 8647 3756 8610 3782 8604 3781 8616
3795 8635
SCHOLZWhat 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, 5 hours 27 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:38 PM CDT, 5 hours 27 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 51 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, 3 hours 6 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.Local storm report, Jun 27, 8:00 PM CDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
900 PM EDT WED JUN 27 2001
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0850 PM LEITCHFIELD KY WIND DAMAGE
06/27/01 GRAYSON SEVERAL TREES DOWN NEAR
LEITCHFIELD. REPORTED
BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
OFFICIAL.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.