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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 58, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2014, 6:26 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 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
- May 21, 2014, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 2014, 6:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Jefferson County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 21, 4:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 21, 4:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 21, 3:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 343 PM EDT WED MAY 21 2014 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-221945- ORANGE IN-WASHINGTON IN-SCOTT IN-JEFFERSON IN-DUBOIS IN-CRAWFORD IN- PERRY IN-HARRISON IN-FLOYD IN-CLARK IN-HANCOCK KY-BRECKINRIDGE KY- MEADE KY-OHIO KY-GRAYSON KY-HARDIN KY-BULLITT KY-JEFFERSON KY- OLDHAM KY-TRIMBLE KY-HENRY KY-SHELBY KY-FRANKLIN KY-SCOTT KY- HARRISON KY-SPENCER KY-ANDERSON KY-WOODFORD KY-FAYETTE KY-BOURBON KY- NICHOLAS KY-NELSON KY-WASHINGTON KY-MERCER KY-JESSAMINE KY-CLARK KY- LARUE KY-MARION KY-BOYLE KY-GARRARD KY-MADISON KY-BUTLER KY- EDMONSON KY-HART KY-GREEN KY-TAYLOR KY-CASEY KY-LINCOLN KY-LOGAN KY- WARREN KY-SIMPSON KY-ALLEN KY-BARREN KY-MONROE KY-METCALFE KY- ADAIR KY-RUSSELL KY-CUMBERLAND KY-CLINTON KY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAOLI...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...MADISON... JASPER...MARENGO...TELL CITY...CORYDON...NEW ALBANY... JEFFERSONVILLE...HAWESVILLE...HARDINSBURG...BRANDENBURG... BEAVER DAM...LEITCHFIELD...ELIZABETHTOWN...FORT KNOX... MOUNT WASHINGTON...SHEPHERDSVILLE...LOUISVILLE...LA GRANGE... BEDFORD...NEW CASTLE...SHELBYVILLE...FRANKFORT...GEORGETOWN... CYNTHIANA...TAYLORSVILLE...LAWRENCEBURG...VERSAILLES...LEXINGTON... PARIS...CARLISLE...BARDSTOWN...SPRINGFIELD...HARRODSBURG... NICHOLASVILLE...WINCHESTER...HODGENVILLE...LEBANON...DANVILLE... LANCASTER...RICHMOND...MORGANTOWN...BROWNSVILLE...MUNFORDVILLE... GREENSBURG...CAMPBELLSVILLE...LIBERTY...STANFORD...RUSSELLVILLE... BOWLING GREEN...FRANKLIN...SCOTTSVILLE...GLASGOW...TOMPKINSVILLE... EDMONTON...COLUMBIA...JAMESTOWN...BURKESVILLE...ALBANY 343 PM EDT WED MAY 21 2014 /243 PM CDT WED MAY 21 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE MIDWEST THIS EVENING. AS IT DOES SO...THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA AND ILLINOIS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST INTO SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS BEING THE MAIN THREAT. LARGE HAIL AND AN ISOLATED TORNADO OR TWO WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE BEST TIMING FOR STORMS WILL BE 5PM TO 11PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. ADDITIONAL STORMS ARE POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS THE FRONT SAGS INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. A FEW OF THE STORMS ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN KENTUCKY MAY BE STRONG...WITH GUSTY WINDS AS THE MAIN THREAT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER OBSERVED THIS EVENING THROUGH THURSDAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE. && MORE INFORMATION...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND...AT WEATHER.GOV/LOUISVILLE. 13
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Trimble | 30 min |
| May 21, 7:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Trimble | 3 hr |
| May 21, 7:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry | 32 min |
| May 21, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry | 33 min |
| May 21, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 29 min |
| May 21, 7:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Trimble | 3 hr |
| May 21, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 29 min |
| May 21, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Scott and 1 more | 36 min |
| May 21, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| May 21, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 31 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.