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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY

January 24, 2002Edmonson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 2002, 1:58 AM CST for Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 24, 2002, 1:58 AM CST (07:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 2002, 2:15 AM CST
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Edmonson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:00 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
Jan 24, 2:10 AM CST	Thunderstorm Wind 90 E	Countywide, KY	Trees were blown down throughout the county. A garage was blown down, several storage buildings were blown away, and a propane gas tank was blown over. Winds also damaged windows and roofs on homes.

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
Jan 24, 1:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 126 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: 682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 3.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 240758
SVRSDF
KYC061-240815-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
156 AM CST THU JAN 24 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 215 AM CST

* AT 154 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF BROWNSVILLE...OR ABOUT 16 MILES
  NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BROWNSVILLE AROUND 205 AM CST

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING 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.

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

LAT...LON 3732 8645 3717 8639 3706 8610 3721 8607
          3732 8616

$$
KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 10:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	40 min
Jan 23, 11:24 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Jefferson, Meade, Ohio, Oldham and 2 more	3 hr
Jan 23, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	11 min
Jan 24, 1:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	34 min
Jan 24, 2:33 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson	87 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.