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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Louisville, KY

June 24, 2019Clark County, Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2019, 3:57 PM EDT for Clark County, Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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 24, 2019, 3:57 PM EDT (19:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 2019, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clark County, KY, Madison County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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
Jun 24, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 122 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, 7:34 PM EDT, 20 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 7:34 PM EDT, 20 hours 23 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, 8:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	34 min
Jun 23, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	25 min
Jun 23, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	32 min
Jun 23, 9:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	23 min
Jun 23, 10:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	33 min
Jun 23, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	45 min
Jun 24, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland, Russell	38 min
Jun 24, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	17 min
Jun 24, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	26 min
Jun 24, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Shelby	31 min
Jun 24, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	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.