Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 7:46 PM EDT for Clark County, Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 14 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, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Clark County, IN, Jefferson County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 176 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.
000
WFUS53 KLMK 102347
TORSDF
INC019-077-110000-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
646 PM EST TUE APR 10 2001
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
NORTHEASTERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA
* UNTIL 700 PM EST(800 PM EDT)
* AT 644 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A TORNADO NEAR NEW WASHINGTON...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTH OF
LOUISVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
OTTO...PAYNESVILLE...SALUDA AROUND 655 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 3868 8558 3855 8562 3850 8548 3857 8542
3866 8543The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 32 min |
| Apr 10, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 50 min |
| Apr 10, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 28 min |
| Apr 10, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 30 min |
| Apr 10, 7:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 27 min |
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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.