Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2009
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 230, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2009, 1:13 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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 5, 2009, 1:13 PM CDT (18:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2009, 1:37 PM CDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Warren County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 448 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 5, 12:50 PM CDT, 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 12:50 PM CDT, 23 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 5, 10:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1140 AM EDT SUN JUL 5 2009 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-060830- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN- CRAWFORD IN-PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY- BRECKINRIDGE KY-MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY- JEFFERSON KY-OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY- SCOTT KY-HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY- FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY-NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY- MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY-LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY- GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY-EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY- TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY-WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY- ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY-ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY- CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY- 1140 AM EDT SUN JUL 5 2009 /1040 AM CDT SUN JUL 5 2009/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AS LOW PRESSURE MOVES ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY. CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE THE MAIN THREAT WITH ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL RETURN TO THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY AS A COOL FRONT PASSES THROUGH THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. DK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 11:44 AM CDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1244 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 2009 KYZ028-045-046-053-054-065-051745- HARDIN-LARUE-MARION-NELSON-TAYLOR-WASHINGTON- 1244 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 2009 ...STRONG STORM... AT 1243 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR ELIZABETHTOWN...OR 34 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND ONE INCH PER HOUR REDUCING VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN ONE MILE...SMALL PEA OR MARBLE SIZE HAIL... AND GUSTY WINDS OF AROUND 35 TO 40 MPH...ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL BE... NEAR BOSTON AROUND 1255 PM EDT. NEAR LYONS AROUND 105 PM EDT. NEAR NEW HAVEN AROUND 110 PM EDT. NEAR NEW HOPE AROUND 115 PM EDT. NEAR HOLY CROSS AROUND 120 PM EDT. NEAR LORETTO AROUND 125 PM EDT. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO... WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE ON THE INTERNET...OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. && KIRKPATRICK
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:54 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 154 PM EDT SUN JUL 5 2009 KYZ061-062-071-051815- BUTLER-EDMONSON-WARREN- 1254 PM CDT SUN JUL 5 2009 ...HEAVY RAINFALL IS HEADING TOWARD BOWLING GREEN... AT 1248 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A HEAVY RAIN PRODUCING THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. A SPOTTER REPORTED THAT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND TWO INCHES OCCURRED IN JUST OVER AN HOUR WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVED THROUGH ABERDEEN IN CENTRAL BUTLER COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL BE... NEAR BOWLING GREEN AROUND 115 PM CDT. THIS STORM WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 65 IN KENTUCKY BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 22 AND 38...AND THE NATCHER PARKWAY BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 5 AND 7. VISIBILITY WILL BE REDUCED TO LESS THAN HALF A MILE IN THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AREA. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS OCCURRING. EXPECT PONDING OF WATER ON LOCAL ROADWAYS. DRIVERS SHOULD SLOW DOWN AND TURN ON THEIR HEADLIGHTS IF ENCOUNTERING HEAVY RAINS. && JBS
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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.