Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 2012
Tornado Warning 93, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2012, 7:17 PM CDT for Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 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
- Jul 19, 2012, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2012, 7:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 18 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Edmonson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 2853 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1475 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
404 WFUS53 KLMK 200017 TORLMK KYC061-200100- /O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0093.120720T0017Z-120720T0100Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 717 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2012 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CENTRAL EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... * UNTIL 800 PM CDT... * AT 715 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ARTHUR...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THIS TORNADIC STORM WILL ALSO IMPACT... ARTHUR... RHODA... CHALYBEATE... PIG AND ELKO... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...WIDESPREAD HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ARE LIKELY. SEEK SHELTER NOW! TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF IN A VEHICLE OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR POST YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE. && LAT...LON 3714 8608 3711 8627 3724 8626 3725 8619 TIME...MOT...LOC 0017Z 330DEG 8KT 3722 8621 $$ AMS
1 follow-up statement
406 WWUS53 KLMK 200035 SVSLMK SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 735 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2012 KYC061-200045- /O.CAN.KLMK.TO.W.0093.000000T0000Z-120720T0100Z/ EDMONSON KY- 735 PM CDT THU JUL 19 2012 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL EDMONSON COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE STORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED AND ARE NO LONGER SEVERE. HOWEVER STRONG STORMS REMAIN IN THE AREA. THESE ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OR POST YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE FACEBOOK PAGE. LAT...LON 3714 8608 3711 8627 3724 8626 3725 8619 TIME...MOT...LOC 0035Z 330DEG 8KT 3719 8618 $$ AMS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Warren | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 7:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart | 44 min |
| Jul 19, 7:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin, Hart | 46 min |
| Jul 19, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Meade | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 7:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Green, Larue and 3 more | 58 min |
| Jul 19, 7:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hart | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Simpson, Warren | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 7:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 31 min |
| Jul 19, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe, Simpson and 1 more | 45 min |
| Jul 19, 8:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Green, Metcalfe, Russell | 49 min |
| Jul 19, 8:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 20 min |
| Jul 19, 8:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 9:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe | 43 min |
| Jul 19, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 9:24 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock | 31 min |
| Jul 19, 9:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 9:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clinton | 28 min |
| Jul 19, 10:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 10:45 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Logan, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 10:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Ohio | 32 min |
| Jul 19, 10:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Simpson | 29 min |
| Jul 19, 11:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Ohio | 27 min |
| Jul 19, 11:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Logan, Simpson | 3 hr |
| Jul 20, 2:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Allen | 28 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.