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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Louisville, KY

October 18, 2007Perry County, Indiana; Breckinridge County, Hancock County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 7:12 PM CDT for Perry County, Indiana; Breckinridge County, Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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: Oct 18, 2007, 7:12 PM CDT (00:12 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2007, 7:45 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Perry County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Hancock County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:13 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
Oct 18, 7:12 PM CDT	TORNADO	2 Nw Hawesville, KY	TORNADO ON THE GROUND

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
Oct 18, 1:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 1487 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 259 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 337 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.8
Supercell composite: 10.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 190013
TORLMK
INC123-KYC027-091-190045-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0020.071019T0012Z-071019T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
712 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 745 PM CDT...

* AT 709 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  HAWESVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GERALD...ROME...STEPHENSPORT AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GATCHEL BY
  725 PM CDT...
  MOOLEYVILLE...DERBY AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEOPOLD BY 730 PM
  CDT...
  DEXTER AND 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MT. PLEASANT BY 735 PM CDT...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORIOLE BY 740 PM CDT...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS UNDER A WORK BENCH OR
OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY, BATHROOM, OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

TAKE COVER NOW TORNADOES AT NIGHT CAN BE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. DO NOT
WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. IT MAY BE TOO LATE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3789 8686 3820 8648 3810 8647 3808 8645
      3805 8648 3804 8650 3802 8644 3799 8642
      3784 8667
TIME...MOT...LOC 0012Z 231DEG 40KT 3788 8669

$$

MJ

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 190017
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
816 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

INC123-KYC027-091-190045-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-071019T0045Z/
PERRY IN-BRECKINRIDGE KY-HANCOCK KY-
716 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR CENTRAL
HANCOCK...NORTHERN BRECKINRIDGE AND SOUTHERN PERRY COUNTIES...

AT 713 PM CDT...AMATUER RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED A TORNADO TWO MILES 
NORTHWEST OF HAWESVILLE. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR DODD...OR 
ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF ROCKPORT...MOVING QUICKLY TO THE NORTHEAST AT 
50 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  GERALD...ROME...STEPHENSPORT AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GATCHEL BY
  725 PM CDT...
  MOOLEYVILLE...DERBY AND 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEOPOLD BY 730 PM
  CDT...
  DEXTER AND 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MT. PLEASANT BY 735 PM CDT...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ORIOLE BY 740 PM CDT...

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS UNDER A WORK BENCH OR
OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY, BATHROOM, OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3789 8686 3820 8648 3810 8647 3808 8645
      3805 8648 3804 8650 3802 8644 3799 8642
      3784 8667
TIME...MOT...LOC 0016Z 231DEG 40KT 3791 8665

$$

AL

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 190036
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
836 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

KYC091-190046-
/O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-071019T0045Z/
HANCOCK KY-
736 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL HANCOCK COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3794 8654 3806 8665 3820 8648 3810 8647
      3808 8645 3804 8650 3803 8646 3799 8642
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 231DEG 40KT 3805 8643

$$

INC123-KYC027-190045-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0020.000000T0000Z-071019T0045Z/
PERRY IN-BRECKINRIDGE KY-
736 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR NORTHERN
BRECKINRIDGE AND EASTERN PERRY COUNTIES...

AT 730 PM CDT...A TORNADO WAS REPORTED.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED
NEAR MOOLEYVILLE...OR ABOUT 31 MILES EAST OF ROCKPORT...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS UNDER A WORK BENCH OR
OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE IN A BASEMENT. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY, BATHROOM, OR CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT THURSDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3794 8654 3806 8665 3820 8648 3810 8647
      3808 8645 3804 8650 3803 8646 3799 8642
TIME...MOT...LOC 0036Z 231DEG 40KT 3805 8643

$$

JSD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 18, 7:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	34 min
Oct 18, 7:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington	29 min
Oct 18, 7:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	34 min
Oct 18, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	46 min
Oct 18, 8:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	37 min
Oct 18, 8:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	24 min
Oct 18, 8:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	34 min
Oct 18, 8:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	21 min
Oct 18, 9:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	30 min
Oct 18, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	29 min
Oct 18, 9:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	16 min
Oct 18, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hancock	29 min
Oct 18, 8:31 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	29 min
Oct 18, 8:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio	32 min
Oct 18, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	31 min
Oct 18, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	23 min
Oct 18, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	27 min
Oct 18, 9:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio	39 min
Oct 18, 10:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	28 min
Oct 18, 10:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	37 min
Oct 18, 10:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler	30 min
Oct 18, 10:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	40 min
Oct 18, 10:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson	38 min
Oct 18, 10:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer	32 min
Oct 18, 11:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Warren	28 min
Oct 18, 11:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby	23 min
Oct 18, 11:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Taylor	24 min
Oct 19, 12:17 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor, Washington	28 min
Oct 19, 12:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe	20 min
Oct 19, 12:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington	28 min
Oct 19, 12:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Scott	35 min
Oct 19, 1:14 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison and 1 more	31 min
Oct 19, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Nicholas	31 min
Oct 19, 1:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	13 min

Nearby

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2007 Tornado Warnings in Indiana, 2007 Every tornado warning in 2007 Tornadoes in 2007

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.