Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 533
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT for 49 counties in Kentucky; 20 counties in Ohio; Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2001, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2001, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell 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, Garrard County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison 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, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Madison County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Lee County, VA
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
27 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 8:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 9:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 9:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 9:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Robertson | 52 min |
| Jul 8, 9:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 68 min |
| Jul 8, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 9:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 9:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 9:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Powell | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 9:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming, Rowan | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 9:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Carter | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 10:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 10:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Johnson, Morgan | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 10:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Elliott | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 11:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Morgan | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Whitley | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 11:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 52 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 1437 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1070 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.