Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 241
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 6, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT for Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 46 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 6, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2002, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 30 min |
| May 6, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Nelson | 50 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 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
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Posey | 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.