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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 527

July 8, 20015 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2001, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 74 counties

Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey 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, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson 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, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Claiborne County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wayne County, WV

Warnings issued inside it

41 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Switzerland	39 min
Jul 8, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	39 min
Jul 8, 1:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Carter	37 min
Jul 8, 1:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Mason	2 hr
Jul 8, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Grant	40 min
Jul 8, 1:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	51 min
Jul 8, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	40 min
Jul 8, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Owen	65 min
Jul 8, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	34 min
Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason	63 min
Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	63 min
Jul 8, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Robertson	63 min
Jul 8, 2:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RLX	Carter	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Magoffin	42 min
Jul 8, 2:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming, Rowan	52 min
Jul 8, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Lewis	58 min
Jul 8, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee	51 min
Jul 8, 2:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery	32 min
Jul 8, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	30 min
Jul 8, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Carter	66 min
Jul 8, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	49 min
Jul 8, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	32 min
Jul 8, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	44 min
Jul 8, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	44 min
Jul 8, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	44 min
Jul 8, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	30 min
Jul 8, 3:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee	43 min
Jul 8, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	30 min
Jul 8, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Wise, City of Norton	49 min
Jul 8, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	52 min
Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	30 min
Jul 8, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Leslie	38 min
Jul 8, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Russell, Scott	38 min
Jul 8, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	42 min
Jul 8, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Lee	38 min
Jul 8, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	49 min
Jul 8, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Washington	48 min
Jul 8, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hancock, Hawkins	51 min
Jul 8, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Unicoi	48 min
Jul 8, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Claiborne, Grainger, Union	41 min
Jul 8, 7:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley	49 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 3052 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.9

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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
Jul 8, 12:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin and 20 more	5 hr
Jul 8, 10:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 42 more	6 hr
Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 47 more	6 hr
Jul 8, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 11 more	5 hr
Jul 8, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bell, Knox, McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2001 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.