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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

January 10, 20084 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 10, 2008, 2:03 PM CST for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jan 10, 2008, 2:03 PM CST (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2008, 2:30 PM CST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Barren County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Hart County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 10, 2:05 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Park City, KY	TREES DOWN.
Jan 10, 2:07 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Cave City, KY	MOBILE HOME BLOWN OVER AND LARGE TREES DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 589 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 102003
TORLMK
KYC009-061-099-227-102030-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0002.080110T2003Z-080110T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
203 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN BARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHEASTERN EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHWESTERN HART COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  EASTERN WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 230 PM CST...

* AT 158 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR HAYS...
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  CAVE CITY BY 210 PM CST...
  HORSE CAVE BY 215 PM CST...
  ROWLETTS AND UNO BY 220 PM CST...

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.

LAT...LON 3731 8595 3718 8575 3701 8614 3708 8622
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 226DEG 42KT 3708 8608

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 102013
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
312 PM EST THU JAN 10 2008

KYC009-099-102030-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080110T2030Z/
HART KY-BARREN KY-
212 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM CST FOR NORTHERN
BARREN AND SOUTHWESTERN HART COUNTIES...

AT 211 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CAVE CITY...OR
ABOUT 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
MPH.

THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  UNO AND ROWLETTS BY 220 PM CST...

HEAVY RAINFALL MAY OBSCURE THIS TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU WAIT
TO SEE OR HEAR IT COMING...IT MAY BE TOO LATE TO GET TO A SAFE PLACE.

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.

LAT...LON 3715 8607 3717 8606 3719 8607 3720 8605
      3723 8605 3731 8595 3718 8575 3707 8599
TIME...MOT...LOC 2012Z 235DEG 35KT 3715 8594

$$

MACZKO

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 102025
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
325 PM EST THU JAN 10 2008

KYC009-099-102035-
/O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0002.000000T0000Z-080110T2030Z/
HART KY-BARREN KY-
225 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN BARREN AND SOUTHWESTERN HART
COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 230 PM CST...

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST THURSDAY EVENING
FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY.

THE STORM HAS MOVED RAPIDLY OFF TO THE EAST...THUS THE TORNADO 
WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE AT 230 PM CST. 

LAT...LON 3715 8607 3717 8606 3719 8607 3720 8605
      3723 8605 3731 8595 3718 8575 3707 8599
TIME...MOT...LOC 2025Z 235DEG 35KT 3722 8581

$$

MACZKO

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 10, 12:46 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Logan	6 hr
Jan 10, 12:49 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	26 min
Jan 10, 1:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan, Simpson	33 min
Jan 10, 1:19 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Simpson	14 min
Jan 10, 1:31 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	29 min
Jan 10, 1:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren	17 min
Jan 10, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart, Larue	4 hr
Jan 10, 2:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	36 min
Jan 10, 2:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	17 min
Jan 10, 2:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Larue, Marion, Taylor	19 min
Jan 10, 3:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson, Washington	18 min
Jan 10, 3:10 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	20 min
Jan 10, 3:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Washington	27 min
Jan 10, 3:54 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	36 min
Jan 10, 4:16 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Harrison, Nelson, Scott	3 hr

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.