Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 5:30 PM EST for Washington County, Indiana. 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
- Apr 10, 2001, 5:30 PM EST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Washington County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 1:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -485 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1211 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
417 WFUS53 KLMK 102231 TORSDF INC175-102300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 530 PM EST TUE APR 10 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 600 PM EST * AT 529 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR MOUNT CARMEL...OR ABOUT 47 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MOUNT CARMEL...CAMPBELLSBURG AROUND 535 PM EST MCKINLEY AROUND 540 PM EST RUSH CREEK VALLEY AROUND 545 PM EST PLATTSBURG...KOSSUTH AROUND 550 PM EST PUMPKIN CENTER...LITTLE YORK AROUND 555 PM EST THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY...SMALL ROOM OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. KIRKPATRICK LAT...LON 3877 8630 3864 8632 3862 8590 3875 8591
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 11:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 11:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 32 min |
| Apr 10, 12:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 4:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 6:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 27 min |
| Apr 10, 6:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson | 14 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.