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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2005, 6:19 PM EDT for Garrard County, Jessamine County, Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 2005, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2005, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Garrard County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Madison County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 584 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 637 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 19, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 240 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY)... CURRENT SAT/OBS SHOWING PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ACROSS MUCH OF THE FA THIS AFTERNOON...SANS THE FAR SOUTH AND FAR EASTERN AREAS WHERE CLOUDY SKIES WERE REPORTED. MID LEVEL VORT IS SETTING OFF CONVECTION ACROSS MUCH OF CENTRAL TN NORTHEASTWARD INTO SOUTH CENTRAL AND EASTERN KENTUCKY. WASHED OUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY STILL LOCATED NORTH OF THE. LAST FEW RADAR IMAGES SHOWING SOME SCATTERED CONVECTION STARTING TO FIRE JUST WEST OF ORANGE COUNTY. TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE REGION HAVE BEEN A LITTLE COOLER THAN FORECAST AS THE CLOUDS HAVE HELD TEMPS INTO THE 83 TO 88 DEGREE RANGE. IN THE SHORT TERM MAIN FORECAST ISSUE FOR TONIGHT IS POP CHANCES AND PRECIP CHANCES ONCE AGAIN ON WEDNESDAY. LATEST SHORT TERM MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW WASHED OUT FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINING IN THE NORTHERN VICINITY OF THE FA TONIGHT. SCT CONVECTION POSSIBLE ACROSS MUCH OF THE AREA THIS EVENING UNTIL SUNSET. FEEL THAT BEST CHANCES WILL BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN HALF. FOR NOW I PLAN ON CARRYING 30 POPS ACROSS THE NORTHWEST AND 40 POPS ELSEWHERE. MAV/FWC COMPROMISE HAS DONE FAIRLY WELL WITH TEMPS OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. SO WILL CONTINUE TO USE THAT AS A BASIS FOR TONIGHTS MIN TEMPS...WHICH ALREADY LOOKS GOOD IN THE CURRENT FCST. NOT MUCH CHANGE TO THE FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY. SOME DRIER AIR MAY WORK ITS WAY INTO THE REGION. SCATTERED SHRA/TSTMS POSSIBLE ONCE AGAIN DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON DUE TO CONVECTIVE HEATING. HOWEVER...FEEL THAT COVERAGE MAY BE A LITTLE LESS THAN TODAY. USING A MAV/FWC COMPROMISE FOR WEDNESDAY YIELDS HIGHS IN THE LOWER 90S. COMBINE THAT WITH DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW TO MID 70S...HEAT INDICES MAY TOP 100 DEGREES IN SOME LOCATIONS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. -JARVIS .LONG TERM (WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... MEDIUM RANGE MODELS ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND FAIRLY CONSISTENT WITH THE PREVIOUS 24 HOURS. THE MAIN CONCERN WITH THE FORECAST WILL BE THE EXTENT OF AN UPPER LEVEL TROF DEVELOPING OVER THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES AND NORTHEAST STATES THURSDAY. THIS COULD ALLOW A WEAK COOL FRONT TO DROP INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY OR MORE LIKELY THE FRONT WILL DROP INTO CENTRAL INDIANA AND OHIO AND DISSIPATE. ONE INTERESTING FEATURE THAT HAS BEEN EVIDENT ON THE GFS AND ETA MODEL THE LAST 2 DAYS IS A S/W DROPPING INTO SOUTHERN INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY THURSDAY NIGHT. THIS MCS IS CERTAINLY POSSIBLE AS THE FLOW SHIFTS TO THE NORTHWEST AND WE WILL KEEP LOW CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST THURSDAY NIGHT. ONE WORD WILL SUM UP THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK HOT. THE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTRY WILL BUILD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 90S WILL BE COMMON. ALSO WITH THE UPPER RIDGE OVER US WE EXPECT THE ATMOSPHERE TO BE TOO WARM FOR THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT. -JA && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .IN...NONE. .KY...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 3:48 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:16 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 216 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005 KYZ067-191915- LINCOLN KY- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...STANFORD 216 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2005 ...STRONG STORM MOVING ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS LINCOLN COUNTY WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WIND GUST TO 40 MPH. IN ADDITION A FEW LOCATIONS IN LINCOLN COUNTY WILL RECEIVE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. FROM 1 TO 2 INCHES WILL BE POSSIBLE BY 3:15 PM EDT. IF DRIVING THIS AFTERNOON WATCH FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES IN HEAVY RAIN. REMEMBER...DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS ROADS COVERED WITH WATER. JA
Local storm report, Jul 19, 4:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 34 min |
| Jul 19, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Woodford | 32 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.