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Tornado Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY

June 6, 2001Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 2001, 6:52 PM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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
Jun 6, 2001, 6:52 PM EDT (22:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2001, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Madison County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 195 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2001-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2001-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
14 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 062253
TORSDF

KYC151-062315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
652 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN MADISON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 642 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND WEST 
  OF WACO...OR ABOUT 27 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON...MOVING EAST AT 25 
  MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  BYBEE...WACO AROUND 700 PM EDT

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

LAT...LON 3775 8437 3758 8432 3764 8382 3780 8410

VLD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 8:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHarrison3 hr
Jun 5, 11:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHarrison2 hr
Jun 6, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington28 min
Jun 6, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair, Taylor33 min
Jun 6, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Fayette, Madison46 min
Jun 6, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard46 min
Jun 6, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClinton19 min
Jun 6, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon29 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.