Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 24, 2001, 7:41 PM CDT for Barren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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
- Oct 24, 2001, 7:41 PM CDT (00:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 2001, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Barren County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Glasgow, KY | |
| Oct 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Lexington, KY |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1147 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
843 WFUS53 KLMK 250041 TORSDF KYC009-250115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 741 PM CDT WED OCT 24 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 815 PM CDT * AT 739 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO OVER FINNEY...OR ABOUT 19 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... TRACY...BON AYR AROUND 750 PM CDT HAYWOOD AROUND 755 PM CDT ROSEVILLE...GLASGOW AROUND 800 PM CDT TEMPLE HILL AROUND 805 PM CDT THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR THE WARNED AREA. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE. LAT...LON 3698 8618 3673 8600 3687 8576 3716 8593 JA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 24, 7:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 33 min |
| Oct 24, 7:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Washington | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 36 min |
| Oct 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 45 min |
| Oct 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Woodford | 30 min |
| Oct 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 31 min |
| Oct 24, 7:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 43 min |
| Oct 24, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 47 min |
| Oct 24, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Oct 24, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 29 min |
| Oct 24, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 49 min |
| Oct 24, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 37 min |
| Oct 24, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland, Russell | 46 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.