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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY

March 28, 2010Logan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 2010, 2:51 AM CDT for Logan 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
Mar 28, 2010, 2:51 AM CDT (07:51 UTC)
Expired
Mar 28, 2010, 3:15 AM CDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Logan County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 357 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2010-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 476 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Little Rock, AR at 00:00Z on 2010-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 361 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
476 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
361 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
400 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 1:25 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMetcalfe, Monroe35 min
Mar 28, 2:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKLogan50 min
Mar 28, 3:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan, Simpson, Warren22 min
Mar 28, 3:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKSimpson, Warren40 min
Mar 28, 3:40 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBreckinridge, Butler, Grayson50 min
Mar 28, 4:11 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAllen, Edmonson34 min
Mar 28, 3:08 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKFranklin, Scott, Woodford22 min
Mar 28, 3:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison, Scott28 min
Mar 28, 4:11 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Harrison, Nicholas19 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.