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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

May 18, 2004Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 2004, 2:58 PM CDT for Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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
May 18, 2004, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
Expired
May 18, 2004, 3:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 113 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-05-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2004-05-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1070 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 181958
SVRLMK
KYC171-182030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
258 PM CDT TUE MAY 18 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  
* UNTIL 330 PM CDT

* AT 254 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
  THUNDERSTORM NEAR HESTAND OR ABOUT 54 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING
  GREEN.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL SOUTHEASTERN MONROE COUNTY AT 310 PM CDT
  RURAL EASTERN MONROE COUNTY AT 320 PM CDT

THE BEST PROBABILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE ACROSS EASTERN 
SECTIONS OF MONROE COUNTY. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...PREPARE 
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD 
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A 
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3671 8563 3676 8560 3677 8556 3673 8553
          3673 8546 3669 8551 3663 8545 3662 8569

$$

MRJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 18, 2:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004

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.