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Tornado Warning 28, NWS Louisville, KY

February 6, 20086 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Feb 6, 2008, 1:08 AM EST for 6 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 37 min. 4 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, 1:08 AM EST (06:08 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2008, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Anderson County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 1:20 AM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Harrodsburg, KY	AN NWS STORM SURVEY TEAM FOUND EXTENSIVE STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE IN AND AROUND HARRODSBURG. MUCH STRUCTURAL DAMAGE OCCURRED AT THE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS AND AT THE JAMES B HAGGIN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. ALSO A TWO-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING HAD PART OF ITS WALL BLOWN
Feb 6, 1:20 AM EST	TORNADO 1	1 E Harrodsburg, KY	NWS STORM SURVEY FOUND AN EF-1 TORNADO TOUCH DOWN ONE QUARTER MILE EAST OF HARRODSBURG AT ABOUT 120 AM EST WHERE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO A WAREHOUSE AND TREES WAS FOUND. A TREE BRANCH WAS DRIVEN INTO THE SIDE OF A CAR AND A CHIMNEY WAS KNOCKED DOWN FROM A HOUSE. A
Feb 6, 1:20 AM EST	TORNADO	1 E Harrodsburg, KY	NWS STORM SURVEY FOUND AN EF-1 TORNADO TOUCH DOWN ONE QUARTER MILE EAST OF HARRODSBURG AT ABOUT 120 AM EST WHERE EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO A WAREHOUSE AND TREES WAS FOUND. A TREE BRANCH WAS DRIVEN INTO THE SIDE OF A CAR AND A CHIMNEY WAS KNOCKED DOWN FROM A HOUSE. A
Feb 6, 1:30 AM EST	TSTM WND DMG	Versailles, KY	NUMEROUS TREES WERE DOWNED COUNTYWIDE.

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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WFUS53 KLMK 060609
TORLMK
KYC005-021-155-167-229-239-060645-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0028.080206T0608Z-080206T0645Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
108 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  BOYLE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  MERCER COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  EASTERN MARION COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 145 AM EST...

* AT 106 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM LAWRENCEBURG TO 11 MILES WEST OF HARRODSBURG TO
  28 MILES WEST OF DANVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH. THE STRONGEST   
  CIRCULATIONS WILL MOVE INTO MERCER COUNTY.

* TORNADO PRODUCING STORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  VERSAILLES AND HARRODSBURG BY 115 AM EST...
  DANVILLE BY 125 AM EST...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...WIDESPREAD HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ARE
LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SEEK SHELTER NOW

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.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST WEDNESDAY 
MORNING FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3795 8468 3786 8473 3786 8471 3783 8473
      3763 8476 3757 8481 3753 8489 3755 8504
      3753 8510 3809 8497 3807 8466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0608Z 270DEG 56KT 3806 8490 3774 8501
          3752 8521

$$

AL

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 060642
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
141 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008

KYC005-021-155-167-229-239-060651-
/O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0028.000000T0000Z-080206T0645Z/
WOODFORD KY-ANDERSON KY-MERCER KY-WASHINGTON KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY-
141 AM EST WED FEB 6 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR BOYLE...EASTERN MARION...EASTERN
WASHINGTON...MERCER...EASTERN ANDERSON AND SOUTHERN WOODFORD COUNTIES
EXPIRES AT 145 AM EST...

THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE WARNED 
AREA. HOWEVER...IF YOU HAVE RECEIVED WIND DAMAGE...PLEASE REPORT 
THIS TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN 
LOUISVILLE. 

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM EST WEDNESDAY MORNING 
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3795 8468 3786 8473 3786 8471 3783 8473
      3763 8476 3757 8481 3753 8489 3755 8504
      3753 8510 3809 8497 3807 8466
TIME...MOT...LOC 0641Z 270DEG 56KT 3806 8425 3774 8436
          3752 8456

$$

AL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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, 9:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	25 min
Feb 5, 10:46 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	29 min
Feb 5, 11:13 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	32 min
Feb 5, 11:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Monroe	39 min
Feb 5, 11:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade, Ohio	31 min
Feb 5, 11:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	27 min
Feb 5, 11:52 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson	6 hr
Feb 5, 11:52 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe, Russell	38 min
Feb 5, 11:54 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	21 min
Feb 6, 12:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	29 min
Feb 6, 12:07 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	23 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, 12:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Trimble	45 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, 1:19 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.