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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY

April 7, 2006Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 7, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 7, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 7, 2006, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Taylor County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Apr 7, 3:10 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	Campbellsville, KY

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 11:20 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -263 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 174 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 241 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 071901
TORLMK
KYC217-071945-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0039.060407T1900Z-060407T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
300 PM EDT FRI APR 7 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 155 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 11 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF CAMPBELLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE...
  APPROACHING CAMPBELLSVILLE BY 315 PM EDT

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE 
HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3746 8560 3735 8548 3720 8536 3725 8532
      3727 8522 3732 8518 3737 8514 3741 8511
      3745 8514 3745 8521 3742 8529 3747 8537

$$

KIRKPATRICK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 7, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	33 min
Apr 7, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	37 min
Apr 7, 1:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	31 min
Apr 7, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	15 min
Apr 7, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	15 min
Apr 7, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	26 min
Apr 7, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	50 min
Apr 7, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	48 min
Apr 7, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	46 min
Apr 7, 2:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	26 min
Apr 7, 2:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	34 min
Apr 7, 2:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	30 min
Apr 7, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	37 min
Apr 7, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	35 min
Apr 7, 2:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	48 min
Apr 7, 3:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair	36 min
Apr 7, 3:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen	27 min
Apr 7, 3:27 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Casey	33 min
Apr 7, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	36 min
Apr 7, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	34 min
Apr 7, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	29 min
Apr 7, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	34 min
Apr 7, 3:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	46 min
Apr 7, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	24 min
Apr 7, 4:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	20 min
Apr 7, 4:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Monroe	22 min
Apr 7, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	27 min
Apr 7, 5:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clinton	15 min
Apr 7, 6:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	22 min
Apr 7, 7:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	35 min
Apr 7, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	44 min
Apr 7, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	34 min
Apr 7, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	42 min
Apr 7, 7:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	40 min
Apr 7, 7:51 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Spencer	24 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.