Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2007, 7:44 PM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 24, 2007, 7:44 PM EDT (23:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2007, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Greenup County, KY
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KRLX 242344
SVRRLX
KYC089-250015-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0113.070724T2344Z-070725T0015Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
744 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
GREENUP COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...
* UNTIL 815 PM EDT
* AT 740 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GREENUP...OR ABOUT
10 MILES WEST OF IRONTON...AND MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
GREENBO LAKE BY 810 PM EDT...
OLDTOWN BY 815 PM EDT...
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3854 8276 3859 8285 3864 8287 3845 8303
3839 8282
$$
261 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KRLX 250009
SVSRLX
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
809 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007
KYC089-250019-
/O.EXP.KRLX.SV.W.0113.000000T0000Z-070725T0015Z/
GREENUP KY-
809 PM EDT TUE JUL 24 2007
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GREENUP COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815
PM EDT...
THE STORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LIMITS
AND NO LONGER POSES A SEVERE WEATHER THREAT...THUS THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER OTHER WEAKER
THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND PEA SIZE HAIL.
PLEASE REPORT HAIL OR STRONG WINDS TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY
CALLING TOLL FREE...877-633-6772...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.
LAT...LON 3854 8276 3859 8285 3864 8287 3845 8303
3839 8282
$$
26The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 6:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 24 min |
| Jul 24, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 33 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.