Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Charleston, WV

June 6, 2001Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 2001, 7:29 PM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 2001, 7:29 PM EDT (23:29 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 2001, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

County Greenup County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 7:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	South Shore, KY	Large branches and a few large trees were blown down.

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 062329
SVRRLX
KYC089-070015-
/NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0111.062329-070015/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
729 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GREENUP COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT...

* AT 723 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SOUTH SHORE...MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING AREA INCLUDE...GREENUP.

<<CALL TO ACTION>>IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE
WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.

PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772.

$$

LABT...LON 3856 8311 3844 8276 3853 8269 3858 8286
          3873 8288 3872 8301

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 6, 6:37 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 6, 6:37 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
637 PM EDT WED JUN 6 2001

THUNDERSTORMS FROM MAIN BAND HAVE PUSHED INTO SOUTHEAST OHIO. THIS
BAND STRETCHES FROM JUST NORTH OF PKB...SOUTHWESTWARD TO SOUTHERN
INDIANA.  ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FORMED OVER KENTUCKY AND
NORTHEASTERN TENNESSEE...WITH A FEW FRESH CELLS IN WV. LOCALLY HEAVY
RAINFALL IS LIKELY...WILL CONTINUE FFA. WILL ALSO ADD BUCHANAN AND
DICKENSON COUNTIES IN VA TO THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 11 PM THIS
EVENING.

.RLX...
WV...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR ZONES
WVZ005>011...WVZ013>020...WVZ024>040...WVZ046>047.

VA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR ZONES VAZ003-004.
KY...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR FOR ZONES
KYZ101>103...KYZ105.

OH...FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL 11 PM TONIGHT FOR ZONES
OHZ066>067...OHZ075>076...OHZ083>087.

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Boyd	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.