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Tornado Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2008, 12:07 AM EST for Clark County, Floyd County, Indiana; Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. 6 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
- Feb 6, 2008, 12:07 AM EST (05:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2008, 12:30 AM EST
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Jefferson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 12:13 AM EST | TSTM WND GST 60 | Pleasure Ridge Park, KY | AT TERRY AND GREENWOOD ROAD. SPOTTER REPORTED DEBRIS HITTING THE SIDE OF THE HOUSE. |
| Feb 6, 12:19 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Louisville, KY | POWER LINES WERE DOWNED AT THE STATE FAIRGROUNDS. |
| Feb 6, 12:20 AM EST | HAIL 1 | New Albany, IN | QUARTER SIZE HAIL AT EXIT 120 ON INTERSTATE 64. |
| Feb 6, 12:22 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Jeffersonville, IN | ROOF DAMAGE TO THE QUARTERMASTER STATION ON TENTH STREET |
| Feb 6, 12:24 AM EST | TSTM WND DMG | Jeffersonville, IN | ROOF AND STRUCTURAL DAMAGE TO HOMES IN THE CHERRY HILL AREA AS WELL AS SEVERAL TREES DOWN |
| Feb 6, 12:29 AM EST | TSTM WND GST 69 | St. Matthews, KY | TREE LIMBS WERE BLOWN DOWN. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 8:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WFUS53 KLMK 060509
TORLMK
INC019-043-KYC111-060530-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0021.080206T0507Z-080206T0530Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1207 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE...
SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
SOUTHEASTERN FLOYD COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...
* UNTIL 1230 AM EST...
* AT 1206 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 7 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF VALLEY STATION...MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.
* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
VALLEY STATION AND PLEASURE RIDGE PARK BY 1215 AM EST...
FAIRDALE AND OKOLONA BY 1220 AM EST...
FERN CREEK...OKOLONA...HIGHVIEW AND JEFFERSONTOWN BY 1225 AM EST...
MIDDLETOWN BY 1225 AM EST...
THE MOST LIKELY LOCATION FOR A TORNADO WILL BE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF JEFFERSON COUNTY INCLUDING PLEASURE RIDGE PARK AND OKOLONA.
STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE AND 60 TO 70 MPH WINDS ARE LIKELY ACROSS
THE REST OF THE COUNTY.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST WEDNESDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND KENTUCKY.
LAT...LON 3812 8545 3808 8569 3808 8574 3806 8579
3803 8593 3809 8591 3817 8591 3838 8580
3843 8564 3837 8562 3827 8542
TIME...MOT...LOC 0507Z 250DEG 53KT 3806 8595
$$
TWFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 9:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 10:04 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 10:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 10:32 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Perry | 28 min |
| Feb 5, 10:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:38 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 37 min |
| Feb 5, 10:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott | 29 min |
| Feb 5, 10:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 11:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Perry | 32 min |
| Feb 5, 11:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 31 min |
| Feb 5, 11:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 11:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 25 min |
| Feb 5, 11:52 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Jefferson, Scott | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 21 min |
| Feb 5, 11:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Scott, Washington | 33 min |
| Feb 6, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson | 45 min |
| Feb 6, 7:21 AM EST | River Flood Advisory | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 13 hr |
| Feb 5, 8:48 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Ohio | 42 min |
| Feb 5, 9:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio | 35 min |
| Feb 5, 11:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Monroe | 39 min |
| Feb 5, 11:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson, Ohio | 27 min |
| Feb 5, 11:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe, Russell | 38 min |
| Feb 6, 12:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade | 29 min |
| Feb 6, 12:13 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 32 min |
| Feb 6, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 12:26 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Russell | 34 min |
| Feb 6, 12:27 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Larue, Nelson, Spencer | 33 min |
| Feb 6, 12:31 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 6 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer | 27 min |
| Feb 6, 12:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Warren | 50 min |
| Feb 6, 12:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Taylor | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 12:45 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Taylor | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 12:46 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Garrard, Lincoln | 29 min |
| Feb 6, 12:51 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson, Marion, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer, Washington | 39 min |
| Feb 6, 12:59 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Scott, Woodford | 31 min |
| Feb 6, 1:08 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington, Woodford | 37 min |
| Feb 6, 1:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Green, Lincoln, Marion, Taylor | 26 min |
| Feb 6, 1:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Boyle, Fayette, Garrard, Harrison, Jessamine and 5 more | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 1:25 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 35 min |
| Feb 6, 1:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 30 min |
| Feb 6, 1:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas | 27 min |
| Feb 6, 1:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette, Madison | 24 min |
| Feb 6, 1:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Warren | 20 min |
| Feb 6, 1:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 28 min |
| Feb 6, 1:53 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 7 min |
| Feb 6, 2:37 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Monroe | 23 min |
| Feb 6, 3:00 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe, Monroe | 45 min |
| Feb 6, 3:31 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 29 min |
| Feb 6, 3:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Russell | 33 min |
| Feb 6, 4:11 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 23 min |
| Feb 6, 8:26 AM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 25 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:29 AM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Nicholas, Robertson | 22 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:36 AM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 30 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:15 PM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 57 hr |
| Feb 6, 12:15 PM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Warren | 3 days |
| Feb 6, 12:15 PM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Butler, Muhlenberg, Ohio | 4 days |
| Feb 6, 12:37 PM EST | River Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 57 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:05 PM EST | High Wind Warning | LMK | Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Casey, Clark, Clinton and 12 more | 3 hr |
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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.