Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 371
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 2, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT for 11 counties in Illinois; 21 counties in Indiana; 23 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2002, 2:30 PM CDT (19:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2002, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 55 counties
Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Marion County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY
Warnings issued inside it
10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 2:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 48 min |
| Jun 2, 3:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Greene | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 34 min |
| Jun 2, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Martin | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 3:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 119 min |
| Jun 2, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Washington | 62 min |
| Jun 2, 4:09 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Washington | 101 min |
| Jun 2, 4:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 81 min |
| Jun 2, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 50 min |
| Jun 2, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 47 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1151 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 1:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle and 51 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, 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.