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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY

January 10, 2008Green County, Hart County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 10, 2008, 2:24 PM CST for Green County, Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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: Jan 10, 2008, 2:24 PM CST (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Jan 10, 2008, 3:00 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Green County, KY, Hart County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 10, 2:19 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 102024
TORLMK
KYC087-099-102100-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0003.080110T2024Z-080110T2100Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN GREEN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  SOUTHEASTERN HART COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 300 PM CST...

* AT 223 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MONROE...
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR...
  SUMMERSVILLE AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF ALLENDALE BY 235 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.

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

LAT...LON 3724 8585 3745 8562 3733 8549 3717 8568
      3718 8569 3717 8570 3717 8574
TIME...MOT...LOC 2024Z 250DEG 49KT 3721 8573

$$

MACZKO

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 102037
SVSLMK

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

KYC099-102046-
/O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080110T2100Z/
HART KY-
236 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN HART COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

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

THE STORM PRODUCING THE TORNADO HAS MOVED OFF TO THE NORTHEAST THUS 
THE TORNADO WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 3732 8571 3738 8568 3739 8566 3741 8566
      3745 8563 3734 8549 3732 8549 3727 8557
      3724 8559
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 225DEG 44KT 3734 8564

$$

KYC087-102100-
/O.CON.KLMK.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080110T2100Z/
GREEN KY-
236 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 PM CST FOR
NORTHWESTERN GREEN COUNTY...

AT 232 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A TORNADO.  THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SUMMERSVILLE...OR
ABOUT 48 MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50
MPH.

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.

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

LAT...LON 3732 8571 3738 8568 3739 8566 3741 8566
      3745 8563 3734 8549 3732 8549 3727 8557
      3724 8559
TIME...MOT...LOC 2036Z 225DEG 44KT 3734 8564

$$

MACZKO

000 
WWUS53 KLMK 102051
SVSLMK

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

KYC087-102100-
/O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080110T2100Z/
GREEN KY-
250 PM CST THU JAN 10 2008

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHERN GREEN COUNTY EXPIRES AT 300 PM
CST...

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

LAT...LON 3732 8571 3738 8568 3739 8566 3741 8566
      3745 8563 3734 8549 3732 8549 3727 8557
      3724 8559
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 225DEG 44KT 3746 8549

$$

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, 2:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren	27 min
Jan 10, 2:12 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart, Larue	4 hr
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.