Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 235
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 16, 2001, 12:30 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 2001, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2001, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 96 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1008 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Jay, LaGrange and 4 more | 4 hr |
| May 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 33 more | 5 hr |
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.