Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 2004, 8:57 PM EDT for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 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 26, 2004, 8:57 PM EDT (00:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2004, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Harrison County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 242 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
- 116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 684 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
216 WUUS53 KLMK 270057 SVRLMK INC061-270130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 857 PM EDT WED MAY 26 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HARRISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA * UNTIL 930 PM EDT * AT 848 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL UP TO GOLF BALL SIZE. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WHITE CLOUD...OR ABOUT 28 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. LAT...LON 3833 8624 3816 8629 3813 8596 3825 8595 $$ PYE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 32 min |
| May 26, 8:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 30 min |
| May 26, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd | 24 min |
| May 27, 3:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 35 min |
| May 27, 4:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 39 min |
| May 27, 6:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 41 min |
| May 27, 6:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| May 27, 7:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 44 min |
| May 27, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 59 min |
| May 27, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 46 min |
| May 27, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 40 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Washington | 65 min |
| May 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark | 50 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.