Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 364
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 31, 2002, 5:30 PM EST for 22 counties in Indiana; 26 counties in Kentucky; 16 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2002, 5:30 PM EST (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin 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, Ripley County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Washington County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nicholas 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, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Madison County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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.
Warnings issued inside it
3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Franklin | 24 min |
| May 31, 7:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 36 min |
| May 31, 7:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Dearborn | 51 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 663 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Columbiana, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 4:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark, Coshocton, Delaware and 22 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.