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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Charleston, WV

May 2, 2007Lawrence County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2007, 3:16 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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: May 2, 2007, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2007, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lawrence County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KRLX 021915
SVRRLX
KYC127-021945-
/O.NEW.KRLX.SV.W.0013.070502T1916Z-070502T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
316 PM EDT WED MAY 2 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAWRENCE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 313 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED OVER
  LAWRENCE COUNTY...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF YATESVILLE LAKE
  STATE PARK...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL
  AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY.

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 3827 8277 3819 8284 3812 8272 3821 8265

$$

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1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KRLX 021946
SVSRLX

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
346 PM EDT WED MAY 2 2007

KYC127-021956-
/O.EXP.KRLX.SV.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070502T1945Z/
LAWRENCE KY-
346 PM EDT WED MAY 2 2007

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LAWRENCE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 345
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 3827 8277 3819 8284 3812 8272 3821 8265

$$

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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.