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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Louisville, KY

August 28, 2014Butler County, Edmonson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2014, 1:48 PM CDT for Butler County, Edmonson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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: Aug 28, 2014, 1:48 PM CDT (18:48 UTC)
Expired: Aug 28, 2014, 2:20 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KY, Edmonson County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 465 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -55 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1067 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Aug 28, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 12:39 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 28, 9:16 AM CDT, 4 hours 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 28, 7:57 AM CDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 28, 8:01 AM CDT, 5 hours 47 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
Aug 28, 2:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Logan	3 hr
Aug 28, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	30 min
Aug 28, 3:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	29 min
Aug 28, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	32 min
Aug 28, 4:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Logan	3 hr
Aug 28, 4:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	27 min
Aug 28, 4:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Warren	3 hr
Aug 28, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	30 min
Aug 28, 5:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	44 min
Aug 28, 5:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	46 min
Aug 28, 5:50 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Warren	115 min
Aug 28, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	27 min
Aug 28, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	26 min
Aug 28, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	27 min
Aug 28, 6:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	18 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2014 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2014

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.