Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2007, 4:17 PM EDT for Franklin County, Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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
- Jun 5, 2007, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2007, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Franklin County, KY, Shelby County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 171 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 052017 TORLMK KYC073-211-052045- /O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0008.070605T2017Z-070605T2045Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 417 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... EASTERN SHELBY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 445 PM EDT... * AT 414 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR PEYTONA... MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... CAPITAL CITY AIRPORT BY 435 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 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. LAT...LON 3827 8508 3814 8511 3812 8492 3825 8486 $$ JSD
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS53 KLMK 052037 SVSLMK SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 437 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2007 KYC073-211-052047- /O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0008.000000T0000Z-070605T2045Z/ FRANKLIN KY-SHELBY KY- 437 PM EDT TUE JUN 5 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN SHELBY AND SOUTHWESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 445 PM EDT... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. LAT...LON 3827 8508 3814 8511 3812 8492 3825 8486 $$ JSD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 32 min |
| Jun 5, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Woodford | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 42 min |
| Jun 5, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Taylor | 32 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.