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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 2003, 3:57 PM EST for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 2003, 3:57 PM EST (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 2003, 4:20 PM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 2:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 170 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1031 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
654 WUUS53 KLMK 202057 SVRSDF KYC093-202115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 357 PM EST THU MAR 20 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 420 PM EST * AT 250 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WHITE MILLS...OR ABOUT 40 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... EASTVIEW AROUND 405 PM EST STEPHENSBURG...HOWE VALLEY...GLENDALE AROUND 410 PM EST CECILIA AROUND 415 PM EST LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...HEAVY RAIN...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND ANY DOWNED POWER LINES. LAT...LON 3756 8612 3745 8601 3767 8584 3774 8609 $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 7:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 35 min |
| Mar 20, 1:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 32 min |
| Mar 20, 2:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 35 min |
| Mar 20, 2:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 21 min |
| Mar 20, 3:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 29 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.