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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 202, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2010, 1:47 PM EDT for Casey County, Kentucky. It was in force for 13 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
- Aug 5, 2010, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2010, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 13 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.5 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Casey County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 441 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
- 1211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 5, 1:13 PM EDT, 34 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 1:13 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 4, 8:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 11:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Metcalfe | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 11:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 11:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Russell | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 2:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 3:21 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | LMK | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Butler, Casey and 16 more | 10 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 38 min |
| Aug 5, 9:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry, Jefferson, Oldham | 21 min |
| Aug 5, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 9:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 10:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 10:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 12:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 12:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Monroe | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 1:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Metcalfe, Russell, Taylor | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 1:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clinton | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 42 min |
| Aug 5, 2:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 7:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Russell | 23 min |
| Aug 4, 11:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 7:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Orange | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 7:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Orange | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 8:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Dubois | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 8:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 33 min |
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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.