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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2006, 8:49 PM CDT for Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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 7, 2006, 8:49 PM CDT (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 7, 2006, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hart County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 7, 7:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 310 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -177 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1354 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 219 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 7, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 7:41 PM CDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 841 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006 .MESOSCALE UPDATE... NEW TORNADO WATCH WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY TO REPLACE THE ONE THAT EXPIRES AT 9 PM EDT (#162). OTHER WATCH (#165) CONTINUES UNTIL 11 PM EDT. BROKEN LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS CONTINUES FROM NEAR PAH TO FTK TO JUST N OF LEX. SFC LOW NOW OVER FAR NE ARKANSAS EXPECTED TO TRANSLATE SE...THIS SHOULD HELP ENHANCE SLY INFLOW INTO STORMS OVER LMK CWA...AND ALONG WITH BACKING SFC WINDS KEEP THE ASSOC TORNADO THREAT GOING WITH ANY DISCRETE STORMS. MOST INTENSE STORMS AT THIS TIME ARE OVER ANDERSON COUNTY...AND EASTERN OHIO COUNTY. STORMS NEAR FTK APPEAR TO BE NORTH OF SFC GUST FRONT AND MAY POSE A THREAT FOR ELEVATED HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS OVER NEXT HOUR OR SO. CS && .PREV DISCUSSION... (ISSUED 543 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006) .MESOSCALE UPDATE... SUPERCELLS CONTINUE TO MOVE OUT OF TN AND HAVE DISTINCT RIGHT MOVING CHARACTERISTICS...AND NOW THE OUR MAIN FOCUS IS THE LINE OF STORMS THAT ARE FORMING AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THIS SHOULD ENHANCE THE WIND POTENTIAL GIBSON COUNTY KY STORM JUST PRODUCED BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM IN ENTERING AIR THAT HAS NOT BEEN WORKED OVER...SO THE TORNADO THREAT WILL CONTINUE. LARGE HAIL IS STILL A THREAT WITH OPTIMUM WBZS. DEW POINTS DROP OFF BEHIND THE FRONT AND THINGS WILL QUIET DOWN BY MID TO LATE EVENING. JDG LONG TERM(SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY) NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED PD...MAINLY DRY WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL MIGRATE EAST TOWARD THE MID ATLANTIC COAST BY TUESDAY. MOIST SOUTHERLY FLO WILL INCREASE BY TUESDAY...BUT A RIDGE AXIS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST INTO THE NORTHERN GULF WILL INHIBIT RAPID RETURN OF GULF MOISTURE. RIDGING ALOFT WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY AS TROUGHING DEVELOPS ACROSS THE ROCKIES. LOW PRESSURE MOVING WEST OF THE GREAT LAKES WEDNESDAY WILL ALLOW A TROUGH TO MOVE EAST THROUGH OUR REGION WEDNESDAY. MODIFIED GULF AIR WILL APPROACH FROM THE WEST AND SO WILL KEEP LOW CHANCES FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDER WEDNESDAY...SUPPORTED BY HPC. THIS SYSTEM IS WEAK HOWEVER AND MAINLY TO OUR NORTH...SO NO COLD AIR TO FOLLOW WITH CONTD OSLO WARMING THRU FRI. --DK && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 7, 4:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 500 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-080830- 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- 600 PM CDT FRI APR 7 2006 /500 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE TONIGHT ACROSS THE TWO STATE REGION. A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT WHILE AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ALONG THE COLD FRONT OVER SOUTHEAST MISSOURI. BOTH THE LOW PRESSURE AND COLD FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE SOUTHEAST DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THE MAIN FOCUS FOR THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL BE ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT AND THE SURFACE LOW PRESSURE. THE MAIN SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE WILL BE THE POSSIBILITY OF FROST OR FREEZING TEMPERATURES SUNDAY MORNING AS COOL HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY. THE NEXT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEXT WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE DEVELOPING STORMS LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR BROADCAST MEDIA. INFORMATION MAY ALSO BE FOUND ON THE WEB AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. --21
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 7, 7:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 36 min |
| Apr 7, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Spencer | 25 min |
| Apr 7, 7:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson, Ohio | 45 min |
| Apr 7, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 24 min |
| Apr 7, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 39 min |
| Apr 7, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 28 min |
| Apr 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 23 min |
| Apr 7, 8:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 38 min |
| Apr 7, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 29 min |
| Apr 7, 9:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 33 min |
| Apr 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 10:51 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | LMK | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2006Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.