Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 223, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2002, 10:04 PM CDT for Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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
- Aug 25, 2002, 10:04 PM CDT (03:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2002, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hart County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 10:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Priceville, 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1208 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Aug 25, 1:30 PM CDT, 8 hours 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 25, 1:30 PM CDT, 8 hours 34 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 230 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002 THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE COUNTY FORECAST AREA (CFA) THIS AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO THE DEVELOPING TROF OVER KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE. WE EXPECT THE STORMS TO DISSIPATE THIS EVENING AS WE LOOSE THE DAYTIME HEATING. THE ETA AND AVN BOTH INDICATE A CLOSED MID LEVEL LOW ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE MONDAY THROUGH AT LEAST THURSDAY. THE SURFACE LOW WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP OVER EASTERN GEORGIA. DEEPER MOISTURE WILL REMAIN SOUTH AND EAST OF OUR CFA BUT THE UNSTABLE CONDITIONS COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HEATING WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EACH AFTERNOON ESPECIALLY OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE CFA. FWC AND MAV TEMPERATURES ARE IN AGREEMENT AND LOOK GOOD THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD. .SDF...NONE. JA
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 25, 8:29 PM CDT, 1 hour 35 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
929 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM SALMONS KY WIND DAMAGE
08/25/02 SIMPSON TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.
MRCLocal storm report, Aug 25, 9:05 PM CDT, 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE, KY
1005 PM EDT SUN AUG 25 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0915 PM SALMONS KY WIND DAMAGE
08/25/02 SIMPSON TREES BLOWN DOWN. REPORTED
BY PUBLIC.
0950 PM RAPIDS KY WIND DAMAGE
08/25/02 SIMPSON TREES DOWNED. REPORTED BY
COUNTY ROAD DEPARTMENT.
MRCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 38 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.