Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 392
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 5, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT for 41 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2002, 4:15 PM CDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 9:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Casey 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, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 21 min |
| Jun 5, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 14 min |
| Jun 5, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 19 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 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
- 46 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 5, 12:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 5, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Kenton, Trimble | 5 hr |
| Jun 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bracken, Greenup, Harrison, Lewis, Mason, Pendleton and 1 more | 4 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.