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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2015, 3:04 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Clark County, Kentucky. It was in force for 21 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
- Jun 23, 2015, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2015, 3:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 1456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -155 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 818 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 269 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 Jun 22, 7:35 PM EDT, 19 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 7:35 PM EDT, 19 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 2:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Garrard | 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.