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Tornado Warning 36, NWS Louisville, KY

December 23, 2015Edmonson County, Grayson County, Hart County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Dec 23, 2015, 7:06 PM CST for Edmonson County, Grayson County, Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Dec 23, 2015, 7:06 PM CST (01:06 UTC)
Expired: Dec 23, 2015, 7:30 PM CST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Radar indicated
Hail: 0.75 in

Counties Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hart County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:06 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Dec 23, 7:17 PM CST	TSTM WND DMG	Wax, KY	TREES DOWN IN THE TOWN OF WAX. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 23, 12:28 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 624 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 598 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 698 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

680 
WFUS53 KLMK 240106
TORLMK
KYC061-085-099-240130-
/O.NEW.KLMK.TO.W.0036.151224T0106Z-151224T0130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
706 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHEASTERN GRAYSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  WESTERN HART COUNTY IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY...
  EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 730 PM CST
    
* AT 706 PM CST...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
  TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR BROWNSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

  HAZARD...TORNADO. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION. 

  IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT 
           SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. 
           DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR.  TREE 
           DAMAGE IS LIKELY. 

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BROWNSVILLE AROUND 715 PM CST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
ROSEBURG...OLLIE...CHALYBEATE...BEE SPRING...SNAP...STOCKHOLM...
ROYAL...MOUTARDIER...PEARMAN AND BIG WINDY.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...IN A
MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

TORNADOES ARE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE AND CONFIRM AT NIGHT. DO NOT
WAIT TO SEE OR HEAR THE TORNADO. TAKE COVER NOW.

&&

LAT...LON 3726 8641 3745 8610 3723 8590 3716 8604
      3717 8605 3715 8606 3709 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 0106Z 242DEG 49KT 3716 8635 

TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN

$$

EER

1 follow-up statement

317 
WWUS53 KLMK 240127
SVSLMK

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
727 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015

KYC061-085-099-240137-
/O.EXP.KLMK.TO.W.0036.000000T0000Z-151224T0130Z/
GRAYSON KY-HART KY-EDMONSON KY-
727 PM CST WED DEC 23 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN GRAYSON...WESTERN HART AND
EDMONSON COUNTIES WILL EXPIRE AT 730 PM CST...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM CST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL
KENTUCKY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 AM CST FOR
SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3726 8641 3745 8610 3723 8590 3716 8604
      3717 8605 3715 8606 3709 8619
TIME...MOT...LOC 0126Z 242DEG 49KT 3716 8635 

$$

EER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 23, 6:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin	30 min
Dec 23, 6:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	40 min
Dec 23, 6:12 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Ohio, Warren	33 min
Dec 23, 6:17 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	43 min
Dec 23, 6:29 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Jefferson	3 hr
Dec 23, 6:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Meade	30 min
Dec 23, 6:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Logan, Warren	30 min
Dec 23, 6:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Warren	25 min
Dec 23, 6:58 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Franklin, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	47 min
Dec 23, 7:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue, Marion and 1 more	37 min
Dec 23, 7:24 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby, Woodford	36 min
Dec 23, 7:39 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson, Warren	36 min
Dec 23, 7:59 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott, Woodford	46 min
Dec 23, 8:34 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	3 hr
Dec 23, 8:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Taylor	22 min
Dec 23, 8:41 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Hart, Metcalfe	19 min
Dec 23, 9:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	29 min
Dec 23, 9:18 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	3 hr
Dec 23, 9:19 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Washington	3 hr
Dec 23, 9:50 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon	36 hr
Dec 23, 9:58 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Casey, Lincoln	47 min
Dec 23, 10:00 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Casey, Lincoln	45 min
Dec 23, 10:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	27 min
Dec 23, 10:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Russell	36 min
Dec 23, 10:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	40 min
Dec 23, 10:57 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton	33 min
Dec 23, 11:02 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	43 min
Dec 24, 9:14 AM CST	River Flood Warning	LMK	Hardin, Nelson	5 days
Dec 24, 1:17 PM CST	River Flood Advisory	LMK	Nicholas, Robertson	52 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.