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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Louisville, KY

June 23, 2019Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 2019, 6:04 PM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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, 2019, 6:04 PM CDT (23:04 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2019, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Ohio County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 23, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -162 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 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 Jun 23, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 4:27 PM CDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 3:19 PM CDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:01 PM CDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:21 PM CDT, 43 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:26 PM CDT, 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 5:29 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 5:50 PM CDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 23, 6:00 PM CDT, 4 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
Jun 23, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	38 min
Jun 23, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	36 min
Jun 23, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	31 min
Jun 23, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	40 min
Jun 23, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	21 min
Jun 23, 2:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	29 min
Jun 23, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Warren	24 min
Jun 23, 2:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Warren	51 min
Jun 23, 2:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade	14 min
Jun 23, 2:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson	41 min
Jun 23, 2:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	9 min
Jun 23, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade	34 min
Jun 23, 3:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Warren	23 min
Jun 23, 3:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Edmonson, Grayson, Hardin, Hart	33 min
Jun 23, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	14 min
Jun 23, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham	37 min
Jun 23, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Hart, Larue	28 min
Jun 23, 3:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren, Cumberland, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe	37 min
Jun 23, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Green, Hart, Metcalfe	29 min
Jun 23, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson	15 min
Jun 23, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer and 1 more	32 min
Jun 23, 4:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe	24 min
Jun 23, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Hart, Larue, Taylor	44 min
Jun 23, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Scott, Shelby, Spencer and 1 more	36 min
Jun 23, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion, Washington	34 min
Jun 23, 4:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Russell	47 min
Jun 23, 4:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	40 min
Jun 23, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	35 min
Jun 23, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Harrison, Scott	44 min
Jun 23, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln and 1 more	24 min
Jun 23, 5:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	15 min
Jun 23, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Madison, Nicholas	40 min
Jun 23, 6:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette	33 min
Jun 23, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Ohio	36 min
Jun 23, 6:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Meade	37 min
Jun 23, 6:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Logan	36 min
Jun 23, 12:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	42 min
Jun 23, 1:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	46 min
Jun 23, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	25 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.