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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Louisville, KY

May 31, 2001Allen County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2001, 8:04 PM CDT for Allen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 31, 2001, 8:04 PM CDT (01:04 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2001, 8:30 PM CDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Allen County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:04 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 78 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: 170 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1007 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 010104
TORSDF
KYC003-141-213-227-010130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
804 PM CDT THU MAY 31 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  ALLEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  EASTERN LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  SIMPSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN

* UNTIL 830 PM CDT

* AT 759 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER WOODBURN...OR ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING
  GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  RICH POND AROUND 810 PM CDT
  MT. ARIEAL AROUND 815 PM CDT
  ALVATON...PLANO...BOYCE...BOWLING GREEN AROUND 820 PM CDT
  HALFWAY AROUND 825 PM CDT
  CLAYPOOL...PLUM SPRINGS...SCOTTSVILLE AROUND 830 PM CDT

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.

SCHOLZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	44 min
May 31, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	25 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.