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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Louisville, KY

May 1, 2002Garrard County, Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2002, 7:49 PM EDT for Garrard County, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min. 4 reports 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: May 1, 2002, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 2002, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Garrard County, KY, Lincoln County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 1, 8:05 PM EDT	Hail 4.5	Waynesburg, KY
May 1, 8:06 PM EDT	Hail 1.5	Halls Gap, KY	Windows were knocked out of homes.
May 1, 8:10 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 75 E	Crab Orchard, KY	Six power poles were blown down.
May 1, 8:14 PM EDT	Hail 2.75	Kings Mtn, KY

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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 1, 4:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 1437 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 246 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 
WUUS53 KLMK 012349
SVRSDF
KYC079-137-020030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
750 PM EDT WED MAY 1 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  GARRARD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  LINCOLN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT

* AT 748 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MORELAND...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTH OF
  SOMERSET...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 80 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MCKINNEY...STANFORD...ROWLAND...KINGS MOUNTAIN AROUND 755 PM EDT
  CRAB ORCHARD...WAYNESBURG...PREACHERSVILLE AROUND 800 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORMS PATH...TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE UNTIL IT HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE NOTICE.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

$$

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 1, 5:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	43 min
May 1, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	44 min
May 1, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	49 min
May 1, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	45 min
May 1, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	43 min
May 1, 7:28 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion	32 min
May 1, 7:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey	42 min
May 1, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	30 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.