Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2002, 6:54 PM CST for Simpson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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
- Mar 29, 2002, 6:54 PM CST (00:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 7:30 PM CST
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Simpson County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:56 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:15 PM CST | Hail 0.75 | Providence, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 3:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 9.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
385 WUUS53 KLMK 300054 SVRSDF KYC213-300130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 653 PM CST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SIMPSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 730 PM CST * AT 651 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER PRICES MILL...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FRANKLIN AROUND 700 PM CST RAPIDS...GOLD CITY AROUND 710 PM CST HAIL UP TO QUARTER SIZE WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. $$ VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 6:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 27 min |
| Mar 29, 6:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 29, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 26 min |
| Mar 29, 7:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Green, Metcalfe | 34 min |
| Mar 29, 7:19 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 26 min |
| Mar 29, 7:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Monroe | 42 min |
| Mar 29, 7:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 24 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.