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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 2010Allen County, Barren County, Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 2010, 7:06 AM CDT for Allen County, Barren County, Monroe 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: May 14, 2010, 7:06 AM CDT (12:06 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2010, 7:30 AM CDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 96 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: 2636 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 5.3

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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 May 14, 6:12 AM CDT, 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 6:12 AM CDT, 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 2:40 AM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 6:22 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 14, 6:53 AM CDT, 13 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 6:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	23 min
May 14, 6:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren	52 min
May 14, 7:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	33 min
May 14, 7:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	31 min
May 14, 8:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe	37 min
May 14, 8:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	33 min
May 14, 8:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	32 min
May 14, 1:15 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe	3 hr
May 14, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	26 min
May 14, 1:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	21 min
May 14, 2:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	47 min
May 14, 2:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	40 min
May 14, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln	19 min
May 14, 3:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Russell	3 hr
May 14, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	28 min
May 14, 4:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Russell	37 min
May 14, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle	35 min
May 14, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	34 min

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.