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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 329, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2016, 4:49 PM EDT for Franklin County, Scott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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
- Sep 10, 2016, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 10, 2016, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, KY, Scott County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1264 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 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 Sep 10, 4:25 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 10, 4:25 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1137 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-111545- ORANGE-WASHINGTON-SCOTT-JEFFERSON-DUBOIS-CRAWFORD-PERRY-HARRISON- FLOYD-CLARK-HANCOCK-BRECKINRIDGE-MEADE-OHIO-GRAYSON-HARDIN-BULLITT- OLDHAM-TRIMBLE-HENRY-SHELBY-FRANKLIN-SPENCER-ANDERSON-WOODFORD- FAYETTE-BOURBON-NICHOLAS-NELSON-MERCER-JESSAMINE-LARUE-MARION-BOYLE- GARRARD-MADISON-BUTLER-EDMONSON-HART-GREEN-TAYLOR-CASEY-LINCOLN- LOGAN-WARREN-SIMPSON-ALLEN-BARREN-MONROE-METCALFE-ADAIR-RUSSELL- CUMBERLAND-CLINTON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...PAOLI...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...MADISON... JASPER...ENGLISH...TELL CITY...CORYDON...NEW ALBANY... JEFFERSONVILLE...LEWISPORT...HAWESVILLE...HARDINSBURG... BRANDENBURG...HARTFORD...LEITCHFIELD...ELIZABETHTOWN... SHEPHERDSVILLE...LOUISVILLE...LA GRANGE...BEDFORD...MILTON... NEW CASTLE...SHELBYVILLE...FRANKFORT...GEORGETOWN...CYNTHIANA... TAYLORSVILLE...LAWRENCEBURG...VERSAILLES...LEXINGTON...PARIS... CARLISLE...BARDSTOWN...SPRINGFIELD...HARRODSBURG...NICHOLASVILLE... WINCHESTER...HODGENVILLE...LEBANON...DANVILLE...LANCASTER... RICHMOND...MORGANTOWN...BROWNSVILLE...HORSE CAVE...GREENSBURG... CAMPBELLSVILLE...LIBERTY...STANFORD...RUSSELLVILLE...BOWLING GREEN... FRANKLIN...PROVIDENCE...SCOTTSVILLE...GLASGOW...TOMPKINSVILLE... EDMONTON...COLUMBIA...JAMESTOWN...BURKESVILLE...ALBANY 1137 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016 /1037 AM CDT SAT SEP 10 2016/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. SOME STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS ARE POSSIBLE, MAINLY ALONG AND EAST OF THE I-65 CORRIDOR FROM AROUND 2 PM TO 9 PM EDT. DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS ARE THE PRIMARY THREATS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT INSTANCES OF DAMAGING WIND OR HEAVY RAINFALL TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE. ZT
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Local storm report, Sep 10, 4:22 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock | 24 min |
| Sep 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock | 28 min |
| Sep 10, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Meade | 33 min |
| Sep 10, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Breckinridge, Ohio | 24 min |
| Sep 10, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade | 30 min |
| Sep 10, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Jefferson, Meade | 24 min |
| Sep 10, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 28 min |
| Sep 10, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade | 26 min |
| Sep 10, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 17 min |
| Sep 10, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 61 min |
| Sep 10, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 29 min |
| Sep 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 27 min |
| Sep 10, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer | 37 min |
| Sep 10, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Nelson, Spencer | 33 min |
| Sep 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry, Trimble | 24 min |
| Sep 10, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 24 min |
| Sep 10, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Nelson, Shelby, Spencer | 23 min |
| Sep 10, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry | 24 min |
| Sep 10, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Spencer | 13 min |
| Sep 10, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Mercer, Nelson and 2 more | 36 min |
| Sep 10, 4:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Adair, Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe | 63 min |
| Sep 10, 5:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Anderson, Spencer, Woodford | 29 min |
| Sep 10, 5:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 30 min |
| Sep 10, 5:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison | 60 min |
| Sep 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas | 43 min |
| Sep 10, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark | 13 min |
| Sep 10, 6:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Lincoln, Madison | 17 min |
| Sep 10, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford, Floyd, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 27 min |
| Sep 10, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 32 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.