Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 2013, 6:19 PM CDT for Adair County, Green County, Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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
- Jul 18, 2013, 6:19 PM CDT (23:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2013, 6:50 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Adair County, KY, Green County, KY, Taylor County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 2137 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 17, 7:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Casey | 22 min |
| Jul 17, 7:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Spencer | 32 min |
| Jul 17, 7:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 11:34 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 26 min |
| Jul 18, 12:05 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 12:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jessamine | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Meade | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 2:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 3:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 5:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Marion | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 5:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Spencer | 29 min |
| Jul 18, 6:04 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 6:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Green | 30 min |
| Jul 18, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 39 min |
| Jul 18, 6:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Garrard | 43 min |
| Jul 18, 6:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Grayson | 32 min |
| Jul 18, 6:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Garrard | 116 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.