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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 347, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 2006, 6:23 PM CDT for Butler County, Edmonson County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 11 days. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 2006, 6:23 PM CDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2006, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 days
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 346 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1393 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
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 Jun 11, 2:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 2:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 312 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT-MONDAY)... A FRONTAL BOUNDARY REMAINS OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. AT MID AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST SECTIONS NEAR BOWLING GREEN TEMPERATURES ARE NEAR 90 WITH DEW POINTS IN THE MID 60S WITH SUNSHINE. ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SKIES WERE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE MID 60S TO AROUND 70 WITH DEW POINTS IN THE LOWER 60S. AN AREA OF SHOWERS OVER THE WESTERN PARTS OF KENTUCKY HAVE BEEN WEAKENING AND SHRINKING IN AREAL COVERAGE. MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS ARE HOW MUCH WILL OCCUR WITH DEVELOPMENT OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES OUT OF THE PLAINS STATES. EXPECT THAT AS BOUNDARIES FROM CONVECTION OVER WEST KENTUCKY MOVE INTO THE MORE UNSTABLE AIR OVER CENTRAL KENTUCKY THAT THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON. ALSO MID LEVEL IMPULSE MOVING EAST FROM MISSOURI AND LOW MOVING EAST FROM THE PLAINS WILL HELP TO INCREASE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE FORECAST AREA. AS THESE SYSTEMS MOVE TO THE EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT...SHOWERS WILL DECREASE AND WILL BE ENDING FROM THE NORTHWEST. SHOWERS WILL END ALL ACROSS THE AREA BY NOON. SCHOLZ .LONG TERM (MONDAY NIGHT-SUNDAY)... MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... UPPER LEVEL EASTERN U.S. TROUGH WILL SHARPEN UP ALLOWING THE SURFACE COLD DROP SOUTH INTO THE GULF COAST STATES. COOL CANADIAN HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. TUESDAY WILL BE THE PICK OF THE WEEK WITH HIGHS IN THE LOWER 80S AND DEW POINTS IN THE MID 50S. THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY... FAIR WEATHER WILL DOMINATE THE END OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE GREAT PLAINS WILL WEAKEN AS THE PATTERN SHIFTS TO ZONAL FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. WITH THIS SHIFT...LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL TURN FROM NORTHEASTERLY TO SOUTHERLY STARTING ON FRIDAY. AT THE SURFACE THE FRONT OVER THE TENNESSEE VALLEY WILL GRADUALLY MOVE SOUTH AND DISSIPATE. HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE GREAT LAKES REGION WILL SLIDE SOUTHEAST TO THE EAST COAST FRIDAY BRINGING A WARM SOUTHERLY FLOW. DECIDED TO KEEP THE FORECAST DRY OVER THE WEEKEND ALTHOUGH THERE COULD BE SOME ISOLATED T-STORMS WITH THE HUMID AIR MASS SITTING OVER THE REGION. USED A BLEND OF MEX AND GFS ENSEMBLE FOR TEMPERATURES. AML && .LMK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... KY...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 2:40 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 340 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 2006 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-120830- 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 JUN 11 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL HELP TRIGGER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE DURING THE EVENING AS LOW PRESSURE OVER THE PLAINS MOVES EAST TOWARD THE OHIO VALLEY. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL, DAMAGING WINDS, FREQUENT LIGHTNING, AND PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL DECREASE IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY AFTER MIDNIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS AND LAW ENFORCEMENT ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY INSTANCES OF SEVERE WEATHER AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. CALL OUR SPOTTER LINE...OR SEND A REPORT VIA E-SPOTTER ON OUR WEBSITE AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. SCHOLZ
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 10, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 12 days |
| Jun 10, 9:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 12 days |
| Jun 10, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 12 days |
| Jun 10, 9:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 12 days |
| Jun 10, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Madison | 12 days |
| Jun 10, 10:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Hancock | 12 days |
| Jun 11, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Ohio | 11 days |
| Jun 11, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Grayson | 11 days |
| Jun 11, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Grayson, Monroe | 11 days |
| Jun 11, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Boyle, Casey, Metcalfe | 11 days |
| Jun 11, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart, Lincoln | 11 days |
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.