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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY

January 17, 2012Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jan 17, 2012, 11:56 AM CST for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 19 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 17, 2012, 11:56 AM CST (17:56 UTC)
Expired: Jan 17, 2012, 12:15 PM CST
In force: 19 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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 587 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 687 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

207 
WFUS53 KLMK 171756
TORLMK
KYC227-171815-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0006.120117T1756Z-120117T1815Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1156 AM CST TUE JAN 17 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BOWLING GREEN...

* UNTIL 1215 PM CST...

* AT 1151 AM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE SQUALL LINE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING BRIEF RAIN-WRAPPED
  TORNADOES IN ADDITION TO WIDESPREAD STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE. THIS
  DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BLUE LEVEL...MOVING EAST AT 55
  MPH.

* THIS STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT...
  PLUM SPRINGS...
  MOUNT VICTOR...
  DELAFIELD...
  CRESTMOOR...
  BRISTOW AND WARREN COUNTY REGIONAL AIRPORT...
  SUNNYSIDE AND LOVING...
  OAKLAND AND SMITHS GROVE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING THAT
WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. GO TO A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR
ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL 
FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

&&

LAT...LON 3703 8660 3710 8630 3708 8627 3710 8623
      3710 8622 3708 8619 3696 8616 3694 8656
TIME...MOT...LOC 1755Z 261DEG 46KT 3700 8647

$$

AMS

1 follow-up statement

770 
WWUS53 KLMK 171808
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1208 PM CST TUE JAN 17 2012

KYC227-171818-
/O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0006.000000T0000Z-120117T1815Z/
WARREN KY-
1208 PM CST TUE JAN 17 2012

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 1215
PM CST...

THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NO LONGER 
TORNADIC. HOWEVER STRONG STORMS REMAIN IN THE AREA. THESE ARE 
CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE...CALL TOLL
FREE AT...1...8 7 7...6 3 3...6 7 7 2...WHEN YOU CAN DO SO SAFELY.

LAT...LON 3703 8660 3710 8630 3708 8627 3710 8623
      3710 8622 3708 8619 3696 8616 3694 8656
TIME...MOT...LOC 1808Z 261DEG 46KT 3702 8626

$$

AMS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 17, 9:14 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	31 min
Jan 17, 9:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hancock	43 days
Jan 17, 9:34 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	26 min
Jan 17, 9:43 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	17 min
Jan 17, 9:50 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	25 min
Jan 17, 9:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	36 min
Jan 17, 9:57 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	18 min
Jan 17, 10:00 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	30 min
Jan 17, 10:02 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	28 min
Jan 17, 10:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	23 min
Jan 17, 10:11 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Ohio	19 min
Jan 17, 10:19 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Meade	26 min
Jan 17, 10:20 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer	25 min
Jan 17, 10:23 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Nelson, Spencer	37 min
Jan 17, 10:25 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Trimble	35 min
Jan 17, 10:29 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin	16 min
Jan 17, 10:42 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	18 min
Jan 17, 10:44 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Meade, Nelson	31 min
Jan 17, 10:52 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Scott, Shelby, Spencer and 1 more	23 min
Jan 17, 11:06 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Larue	24 min
Jan 17, 11:07 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	23 min
Jan 17, 11:14 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Scott, Woodford	31 min
Jan 17, 11:16 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	29 min
Jan 17, 11:24 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Nelson and 1 more	36 min
Jan 17, 11:27 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue	33 min
Jan 17, 11:28 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	17 min
Jan 17, 11:39 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Hart	36 min
Jan 17, 11:46 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Edmonson, Warren	29 min
Jan 17, 11:48 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	27 min
Jan 17, 11:50 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas	25 min
Jan 17, 12:10 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Green, Taylor	35 min
Jan 17, 12:12 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Simpson	33 min
Jan 17, 12:14 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	31 min
Jan 17, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson	16 min
Jan 17, 12:16 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard	44 min
Jan 17, 12:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson	25 min
Jan 17, 12:25 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	35 min
Jan 17, 12:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	19 min
Jan 17, 12:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Green, Hart, Marion, Taylor	30 min
Jan 17, 12:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	32 min
Jan 17, 12:52 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	23 min
Jan 17, 12:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell, Taylor	31 min
Jan 17, 1:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	13 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.