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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY

April 22, 2005Crawford County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 2005, 4:45 PM EST for Crawford County, Indiana. It was in force for 45 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: Apr 22, 2005, 4:45 PM EST (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 2005, 5:30 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Crawford County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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
Apr 22, 1:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 243 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 280 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 142 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 222145
SVRLMK
INC025-222230-
/O.NEW.KLMK.SV.W.0021.050422T2145Z-050422T2230Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
445 PM EST FRI APR 22 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA

* UNTIL 530 PM EST

* AT 440 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 13
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF ENGLISH...OR ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF
  LOUISVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ENGLISH BY 455 PM EST

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO YOUR NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
AND HAVE THEM RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
OFFICE IN LOUISVILLE.

LAT...LON 3837 8667 3821 8654 3824 8632 3837 8635

$$

JSD

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 222206
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
604 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005

INC025-222230-
/O.CON.KLMK.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050422T2230Z/
CRAWFORD IN-
504 PM EST FRI APR 22 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 530 PM EST FOR
CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY...

AT 503 PM EST...THE PUBLIC REPORTED A 50 MPH WIND GUST NEAR THE TOWN 
OF KIRBY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 54 MILES 
EAST OF PILOT KNOB...OR ABOUT 21 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE...MOVING 
EAST AT 50 MPH.

LAT...LON 3837 8663 3821 8650 3824 8633 3837 8636

$$

JSD

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 222230
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
630 PM EDT FRI APR 22 2005

INC025-222240-
/O.EXP.KLMK.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050422T2230Z/
CRAWFORD IN-
530 PM EST FRI APR 22 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL CRAWFORD COUNTY
EXPIRES AT 530 PM EST...

LAT...LON 3837 8663 3821 8650 3824 8633 3837 8636

$$

JSD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 3:28 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	32 min
Apr 22, 4:12 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	33 min
Apr 22, 4:32 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	43 min
Apr 22, 4:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	33 min
Apr 22, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	41 min
Apr 22, 5:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	36 min
Apr 22, 5:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	37 min
Apr 22, 5:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	28 min

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.