Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 370

June 2, 20025 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2002, 1:15 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2002, 1:15 PM CDT (18:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 112 counties

Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Surry County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, McDowell County, WV

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:33 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee	3 hr
Jun 2, 1:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill, Jackson	57 min
Jun 2, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	64 min
Jun 2, 2:35 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson	3 hr
Jun 2, 2:38 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Madison	4 hr
Jun 2, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Hawkins, Sullivan	48 min
Jun 2, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	40 min
Jun 2, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Johnson	29 min
Jun 2, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Sullivan	32 min
Jun 2, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin	71 min
Jun 2, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson	57 min
Jun 2, 3:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MRX	Johnson	33 min
Jun 2, 4:29 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Shelby	81 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Woodford	3 hr
Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	47 min
Jun 2, 4:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee	4 hr
Jun 2, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	27 min
Jun 2, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine	51 min
Jun 2, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson	60 min
Jun 2, 5:59 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson	4 hr
Jun 2, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Mercer	42 min
Jun 2, 6:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Madison	2 hr
Jun 2, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	44 min
Jun 2, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	25 min

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 245 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1309 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adair, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Edmonson, Grayson and 17 more	5 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in North Carolina, 2002 Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 2002 Every 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.