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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Louisville, KY

May 2, 2019Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 2, 2019, 6:46 PM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 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
May 2, 2019, 6:46 PM CDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired
May 2, 2019, 7:30 PM CDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 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 23:48 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2019-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 608 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 2019-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
608 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1061 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 1, 7:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHenry37 min
May 2, 1:14 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryLMKBreckinridge, Hancock, Henry, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham and 2 more7 hr
May 2, 11:58 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHenry, Shelby32 min
May 2, 12:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAllen41 min
May 2, 12:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKEdmonson, Hart44 min
May 2, 12:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKSimpson, Warren3 hr
May 2, 12:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAnderson, Woodford40 min
May 2, 1:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKGreen24 min
May 2, 1:13 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKHarrison32 min
May 2, 1:29 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKMarion, Washington31 min
May 2, 1:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Nicholas45 min
May 2, 1:42 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKScott33 min
May 2, 1:50 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKJessamine25 min
May 2, 2:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKBourbon, Nicholas30 min
May 2, 2:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAdair, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell and 1 more38 min
May 2, 2:20 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKClark, Jessamine40 min
May 2, 2:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKClinton, Cumberland3 hr
May 2, 2:45 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKCasey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell60 min
May 2, 3:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryLMKCasey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell3 hr
May 2, 4:53 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKAllen37 min
May 2, 5:37 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKLogan38 min
May 2, 5:38 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKSimpson, Warren52 min
May 2, 6:23 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKLogan37 min
May 2, 6:33 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKOhio42 min
May 2, 6:35 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementLMKGrayson25 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.