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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 9:41 PM EDT for Crawford County, Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 18, 2007, 9:41 PM EDT (01:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2007, 10:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Crawford County, IN, Orange County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 2:31 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2442 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS53 KLMK 190141 TORLMK INC025-117-190215- /O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0026.071019T0141Z-071019T0215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 941 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... * UNTIL 1015 PM EDT... * AT 838 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PAOLI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... PAOLI BY 1000 PM EDT... 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 MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY. LAT...LON 3859 8669 3869 8632 3839 8631 3830 8669 TIME...MOT...LOC 0141Z 230DEG 46KT 3837 8669 $$ JARVIS
1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS53 KLMK 190157
SVSLMK
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
957 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007
INC025-190207-
/O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-071019T0215Z/
CRAWFORD IN-
957 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED NORTHEAST INTO ORANGE
COUNTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.
LAT...LON 3839 8669 3859 8669 3869 8632 3843 8631
3842 8632 3841 8632 3839 8631
TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 230DEG 46KT 3850 8654
$$
INC117-190215-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0026.000000T0000Z-071019T0215Z/
ORANGE IN-
957 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM EDT FOR ORANGE
COUNTY...
AT 955 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENBRIER...OR
ABOUT 26 MILES SOUTH OF BEDFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
SYRIA...PAOLI AND CHAMBERSBURG BY 1005 PM EDT...
BROMER...LEIPSIC AND MILLERSBURG BY 1010 PM EDT...
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 MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.
LAT...LON 3839 8669 3859 8669 3869 8632 3843 8631
3842 8632 3841 8632 3839 8631
TIME...MOT...LOC 0157Z 230DEG 46KT 3850 8654
$$
JARVISThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 8:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 34 min |
| Oct 18, 8:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 33 min |
| Oct 18, 8:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 29 min |
| Oct 18, 8:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 34 min |
| Oct 18, 8:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 46 min |
| Oct 18, 9:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 37 min |
| Oct 18, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois | 24 min |
| Oct 18, 9:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 21 min |
| Oct 18, 10:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 30 min |
| Oct 18, 10:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 29 min |
| Oct 18, 10:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.