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Tornado Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY

June 4, 2001Edmonson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 4, 2001, 2:38 PM CDT for Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 22 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: Jun 4, 2001, 2:38 PM CDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 2001, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Edmonson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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
Jun 4, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 1202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -115 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 041939
TORSDF
KYC061-042000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
238 PM CDT MON JUN 4 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 300 PM CDT

* AT 236 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER BROWNSVILLE...OR ABOUT 19 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING
  GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  MAMMOTH CAVE AROUND 250 PM CDT

THIS REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING PREVIOUSLY ISSUED FOR
THE WARNED AREA.

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 AKLWAYS 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.

STUREY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 6:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	2 hr
Jun 4, 7:25 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	2 hr
Jun 4, 1:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	47 min
Jun 4, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	24 min
Jun 4, 1:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	26 min
Jun 4, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	32 min
Jun 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	29 min
Jun 4, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	16 min
Jun 4, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	41 min
Jun 4, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	25 min
Jun 4, 2:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	37 min
Jun 4, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	40 min
Jun 4, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Lincoln	48 min
Jun 4, 3:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	9 min
Jun 4, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	29 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.