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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Louisville, KY

April 3, 2006Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 2006, 12:32 AM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 13 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: Apr 3, 2006, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
Expired: Apr 3, 2006, 12:45 AM CDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Warren County, KY

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 2, 5:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 80 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -308 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1096 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 324 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 2, 10:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 10:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 2:40 PM CDT, 9 hours 52 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
340 PM EDT SUN APR 2 2006

INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-
070>078-081-082-030830-
ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN-
CRAWFORD IN-PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY-
BRECKINRIDGE KY-MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY-
JEFFERSON KY-OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY-
SCOTT KY-HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY-
FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY-NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY-
MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY-LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY-
GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY-EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY-
TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY-WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-
ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY-ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY-
CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY-
340 PM EDT SUN APR 2 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

.DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT.

A WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OUTLOOK AREA
THIS AFTERNOON...HELPING GENERATE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS.  SOME OF THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING
HAIL... GUSTY WINDS... DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING... AND
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS.

TONIGHT...AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE GREAT LAKES REGION...A COLD
FRONT IS FORECAST TO PUSH EASTWARD ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY.
SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER
MISSOURI AND ILLINOIS THIS EVENING ...AND TRAVEL EASTWARD
INTO THE OUTLOOK AREA AHEAD OF THE FRONT...LIKELY FORMING INTO A
SQUALL LINE WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. BASED ON CURRENT DATA...THE
BEST CHANCES FOR WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IN THE OUTLOOK AREA ARE
BETWEEN 11 PM AND 4 AM EDT.

THE STORMS TONIGHT WILL LIKELY BE FAST MOVING...WITH DAMAGING WINDS
THE MAIN THREAT...ALONG WITH LARGE HAIL. ISOLATED TORNADOES CANNOT
BE RULED OUT. LOCATIONS WEST OF I-65 HAVE THE BEST CHANCES OF SEVERE
WEATHER.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

A WEATHER SYSTEM IS FORECAST TO MOVE INTO THE REGION LATE THURSDAY
INTO FRIDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGERS SHOULD MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS
THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY...MAINLY
TONIGHT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL MEDIA... OR VISIT OUR
WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE FOR UPDATES AND MORE INFORMATION.

JA

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 2, 11:08 PM CDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 11:09 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 2, 11:36 PM CDT, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:26 AM CDT, 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 3, 12:31 AM CDT, 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 2, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	28 min
Apr 2, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	47 min
Apr 2, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	28 min
Apr 2, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade	48 min
Apr 2, 8:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson	46 min
Apr 2, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	43 min
Apr 2, 8:43 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	17 min
Apr 2, 8:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	45 min
Apr 2, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Meade	33 min
Apr 2, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	14 min
Apr 2, 9:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	41 min
Apr 2, 9:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby, Spencer	24 min
Apr 2, 9:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Shelby	35 min
Apr 2, 9:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	33 min
Apr 2, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Spencer	35 min
Apr 2, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	33 min
Apr 2, 9:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	21 min
Apr 2, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	36 min
Apr 2, 9:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott, Woodford	34 min
Apr 2, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	16 min
Apr 2, 9:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	26 min
Apr 2, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	37 min
Apr 2, 9:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	37 min
Apr 2, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Taylor	34 min
Apr 2, 9:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	32 min
Apr 2, 9:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	31 min
Apr 2, 10:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	23 min
Apr 2, 10:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	20 min
Apr 2, 10:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe	43 min
Apr 2, 10:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	26 min
Apr 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	24 min
Apr 2, 10:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	28 min
Apr 2, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	36 min
Apr 2, 8:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington	51 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.