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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY

April 10, 2001Trimble County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 10, 2001, 8:02 PM EDT for Trimble County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 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, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2001, 8:20 PM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Trimble County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:05 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, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 164 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 128 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1228 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 226 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 375 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 110003
TORSDF
KYC223-110020-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
802 PM EDT TUE APR 10 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN TRIMBLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 820 PM EDT

* AT 759 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 6 MILES WEST OF BEDFORD...OR ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  LOUISVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BEDFORD AROUND 810 PM EDT

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 3865 8543 3853 8543 3850 8529 3860 8522

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 10, 8:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	26 min
Apr 10, 9:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Scott	25 min
Apr 10, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	32 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.