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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Louisville, KY

July 22, 2020Butler County, Logan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2020, 2:41 PM CDT for Butler County, Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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: Jul 22, 2020, 2:41 PM CDT (19:41 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2020, 3:15 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KY, Logan County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -3 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 Jul 22, 1:59 PM CDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 1:59 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 2:13 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 12:01 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:46 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:25 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:28 PM CDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:40 PM CDT, 1 minute 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
Jul 21, 7:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	24 min
Jul 21, 9:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	21 min
Jul 21, 9:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	26 min
Jul 21, 9:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	18 min
Jul 21, 9:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	20 min
Jul 21, 10:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	3 hr
Jul 22, 12:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	32 min
Jul 22, 12:16 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	29 min
Jul 22, 1:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	44 min
Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	34 min
Jul 22, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	35 min
Jul 22, 2:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	47 min
Jul 22, 2:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Trimble	35 min
Jul 22, 2:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	25 min
Jul 22, 2:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	38 min
Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	25 min
Jul 22, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Warren	37 min
Jul 22, 3:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson, Warren	47 min
Jul 22, 3:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	36 min
Jul 22, 3:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	29 min
Jul 22, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	33 min
Jul 22, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson, Shelby	30 min
Jul 22, 3:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	33 min
Jul 22, 4:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	31 min
Jul 22, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	30 min
Jul 22, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	25 min
Jul 22, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Spencer	32 min
Jul 22, 5:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby	26 min
Jul 22, 5:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby	14 min
Jul 22, 5:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby	31 min
Jul 22, 6:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	24 min
Jul 22, 6:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	30 min
Jul 21, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	30 min
Jul 21, 11:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	27 min
Jul 21, 11:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	24 min
Jul 22, 4:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	26 min
Jul 22, 4:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois, Orange	29 min
Jul 22, 9:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	46 min
Jul 22, 10:33 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott, Washington	42 min
Jul 22, 11:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	41 min
Jul 22, 12:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	44 min
Jul 22, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	33 min
Jul 22, 3:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Floyd	22 min
Jul 22, 4:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	37 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.