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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 140

April 21, 20024 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 21, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 21, 2002, 5:30 PM CDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 21, 2002, 10:00 PM CDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 71 counties

Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Pope County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH

Warnings issued inside it

24 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Warrick	36 min
Apr 21, 5:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Adams	93 min
Apr 21, 5:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Henderson	40 min
Apr 21, 5:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	37 min
Apr 21, 5:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	Posey, Vanderburgh, Warrick	4 hr
Apr 21, 5:55 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	35 min
Apr 21, 5:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	34 min
Apr 21, 5:57 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	93 min
Apr 21, 6:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	Spencer	40 min
Apr 21, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	48 min
Apr 21, 6:25 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Perry	35 min
Apr 21, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	33 min
Apr 21, 6:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Perry	91 min
Apr 21, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	46 min
Apr 21, 6:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	88 min
Apr 21, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	27 min
Apr 21, 7:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	22 min
Apr 21, 7:11 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ILN	Adams, Scioto	3 hr
Apr 21, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Woodford	37 min
Apr 21, 7:30 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	60 min
Apr 21, 7:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	38 min
Apr 21, 7:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	117 min
Apr 21, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	21 min
Apr 21, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	34 min

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -146 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 166 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 21, 5:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jackson and 9 more	6 hr
Apr 21, 11:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 30 more	5 hr
Apr 21, 12:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Hardin	5 hr
Apr 21, 2:15 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 34 more	4 hr
Apr 21, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 8 more	5 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.