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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Louisville, KY

July 21, 2008Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 2008, 3:23 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Monroe 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 21, 2008, 3:23 PM CDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2008, 3:52 PM CDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cumberland County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 21, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 2596 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 21, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 2:00 PM CDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 3:12 PM CDT, 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:10 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:33 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:33 PM CDT, 50 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 2:46 PM CDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:48 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 21, 2:54 PM CDT, 29 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 20, 7:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Franklin, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	40 min
Jul 20, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham	30 min
Jul 20, 7:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas	35 min
Jul 20, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	36 min
Jul 20, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson	34 min
Jul 20, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	48 min
Jul 20, 10:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	37 min
Jul 20, 10:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	38 min
Jul 21, 10:50 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart and 4 more	7 hr
Jul 21, 12:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	24 min
Jul 21, 12:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade	31 min
Jul 21, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson	42 min
Jul 21, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	47 min
Jul 21, 2:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	34 min
Jul 21, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton	33 min
Jul 21, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe	35 min
Jul 20, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	42 min
Jul 20, 8:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Orange, Washington	48 min
Jul 20, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	41 min
Jul 20, 8:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	38 min
Jul 20, 9:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	28 min
Jul 20, 10:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford	24 min
Jul 20, 10:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	27 min
Jul 20, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	29 min
Jul 21, 11:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	28 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.