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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Louisville, KY

October 18, 2007Orange County, Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Oct 18, 2007, 10:15 PM EDT for Orange County, Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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, 10:15 PM EDT (02:15 UTC)
Expired: Oct 18, 2007, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Orange County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:16 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.

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 228 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: 807 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 958 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 317 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.4
Supercell composite: 5.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 190215
TORLMK
INC117-175-190245-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0028.071019T0215Z-071019T0245Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1015 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
  NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT...

* AT 1012 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR LEIPSIC...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SALTILLO...CAMPBELLSBURG AND 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF SMEDLEY BY 1020
  PM EDT...
  MOUNT CARMEL AND RUSH CREEK VALLEY BY 1025 PM EDT...
  MCKINLEY BY 1030 PM EDT...
  MILLPORT BY 1035 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 3855 8634 3868 8646 3870 8644 3870 8634
      3873 8634 3878 8629 3880 8621 3878 8616
      3879 8607 3876 8601
TIME...MOT...LOC 0215Z 227DEG 45KT 3865 8637

$$

JARVIS

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 190227
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1027 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

INC117-190237-
/O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-071019T0245Z/
ORANGE IN-
1027 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVE EAST INTO WASHINGTON 
COUNTY INDIANA.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING 
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND WESTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3864 8623 3868 8632 3878 8629 3878 8625
      3880 8621 3878 8616 3879 8607 3876 8601
TIME...MOT...LOC 0227Z 227DEG 45KT 3875 8623

$$

INC175-190245-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-071019T0245Z/
WASHINGTON IN-
1027 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1045 PM EDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY...

AT 1025 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR MOUNT CARMEL...OR
ABOUT 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BEDFORD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  MILLPORT BY 1035 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. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO
REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR EASTERN
KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3864 8623 3868 8632 3878 8629 3878 8625
      3880 8621 3878 8616 3879 8607 3876 8601
TIME...MOT...LOC 0227Z 227DEG 45KT 3875 8623

$$

JARVIS

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 190239
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1040 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

INC175-190250-
/O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-071019T0245Z/
WASHINGTON IN-
1040 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2007

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT
1045 PM EDT...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTHWEST KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3864 8623 3868 8632 3878 8629 3878 8625
      3880 8621 3878 8616 3879 8607 3876 8601
TIME...MOT...LOC 0240Z 227DEG 45KT 3886 8608

$$

MJ

The 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, 9:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	34 min
Oct 18, 9:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	21 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.