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Tornado Warning 23, NWS Louisville, KY

October 18, 2007Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 8:25 PM CDT for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 24 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, 8:25 PM CDT (01:25 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2007, 8:49 PM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Dubois County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:29 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, 8:48 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	Ferdinand, IN	TREES DOWN AND DOOR OF HOUSE BLOWN OUT. NEAR FERDINAND FOREST.

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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 239 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 190125
TORLMK
INC037-190200-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0023.071019T0125Z-071019T0200Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN DUBOIS COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 900 PM CDT...

* AT 821 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR
  FERDINAND...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  KYANA AND SCHNELLVILLE BY 830 PM CDT...
  MENTOR...BIRDSEYE AND 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CELESTINE BY 835 PM
  CDT...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CUZCO BY 840 PM CDT...
  9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTON BY 845 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 3826 8698 3853 8669 3827 8669 3824 8673
      3825 8679 3824 8679 3821 8679 3820 8683
TIME...MOT...LOC 0125Z 231DEG 43KT 3826 8681

$$

JARVIS

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 190131
SVSLMK

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

INC037-190200-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-071019T0200Z/
DUBOIS IN-
831 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM CDT FOR EASTERN
DUBOIS COUNTY...

AT 830 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 
POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR ST. MARKS.  THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 
45 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CUZCO AND 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NORTON BY 845
  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 3826 8698 3853 8669 3827 8669 3824 8673
      3825 8679 3824 8679 3821 8679 3820 8683
TIME...MOT...LOC 0131Z 231DEG 43KT 3829 8678

$$

JARVIS

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 190149
SVSLMK

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

INC037-190159-
/O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0023.000000T0000Z-071019T0200Z/
DUBOIS IN-
849 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN DUBOIS COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED
AREA.

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

LAT...LON 3826 8698 3853 8669 3827 8669 3824 8673
      3825 8679 3824 8679 3821 8679 3820 8683
TIME...MOT...LOC 0149Z 231DEG 43KT 3843 8657

$$

JARVIS

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, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	33 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, 8:41 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

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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.