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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 135, NWS Louisville, KY

May 6, 2002Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2002, 7:06 PM EDT for Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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: May 6, 2002, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: May 6, 2002, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 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 6, 7:20 PM EDT	Hail 1	Moreland, 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 1069 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 268 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 062306
SVRSDF
KYC137-062330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
705 PM EDT MON MAY 6 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 703 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER MORELAND...OR ABOUT 34 MILES NORTH OF
  SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROWLAND...STANFORD AROUND 710 PM EDT
  PREACHERSVILLE AROUND 715 PM EDT
  CRAB ORCHARD...DOG WALK AROUND 720 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...SEEK SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY

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

$$

JA

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 Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 6, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 6, 2:30 PM EDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
230 PM EDT MON MAY 6 2002

WILL ISSUE A FLOOD WATCH FOR THE NORTHERN ONE THIRD OF OUR FA FOR
TNGT AND TUE.

ONE BATCH OF CNVCTV RAINS MOVED THRU OUR NRN CWA EARLIER TDA WITH
.50 TO 1.50 AMOUNTS...WHILE ANOTHER COMPLEX BEARS DOWN ON OUR CWA
ATTM. GROUND WAS ALREADY NEAR SATURATION FROM RAINS LAST WEEK. IN
ADDITION...EXPECT RENEWED DEVELOPMENT IN WEST/CNTRL KY AS RICH
MOISTURE ADVECTS NWD THERE IN AN AREA WHERE HTG IS OCCURRING.

WATER VAPOR IMAGERY CONTS TO SHOW PLUME/SUBTROPICAL MSTR INTO OH VLY
AS WEAK SHRTWVS MOVE ALONG THE SRN EDGE OF THE WESTERLIES. PWS
BETWEEN 1.5 AND 2.0 TNGT/TUE WITH MODELS SHOWING AXIS OF HIGHEST QPF
EAST-WEST ACRS OUR NRN TIER OF COUNTIES...SIMILAR TO LATEST NCEP
FCST OF EXCESSIVE RAIN.

WARM...MOIST UNSTABLE AMS WILL OVERSPREAD ALL OUR CWA TNGT AND
REMAIN TIL CD FROPA ON THU. THIS SLOW MOVG FRONT WILL BE THE FOCUS
FOR CONVECTIVE RAINS NEAR AND IN THE RICH MSTR TO THE SOUTH OF THE
BOUNDARY THRU TUE WITH REGENERATIVE ACTIVTY EXPECTED ACRS WATCH
AREA.

COORDINATED WITH IND...ILN AND JKL.

.SDF...FLOOD WATCH TNGT AND TUE FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND
       NORTHERN KY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LOUISVILLE TO LEXINGTON
       LINE.

KIRKPATRICK

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 6, 1:30 PM EDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-
070>078-081-082-062330-

CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
130 PM EDT MON MAY 6 2002

THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL
INDIANA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

WARM...MOIST UNSTABLE AIR WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD ACROSS OUR REGION
AS A COLD FRONT ACROSS THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY SLOWLY PUSHES
TOWARD THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY.

A COMPLEX OF STORMS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF ILLINOIS AND
SOUTHEAST MISSOURI WILL TRACK INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND
POSSIBLY LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE
EXPECTED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER
SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATE TODAY.

DK

Local storm report, May 6, 6:15 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
615 PM EDT MON MAY 6 2002

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0455 PM    SHEPHERDSVILLE            KY   WIND DAMAGE
05/06/02   BULLITT                        TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ALONG HWY 44 WEST INTO
                                          SHEPHERDSVILLE AND AT CEDAR
                                          GROVE ROAD.

RL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 6, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	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.