Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 2021, 6:51 PM EDT for Hardin County, Larue County, Nelson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 25, 2021, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 25, 2021, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.25 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Hardin County, KY, Larue County, KY, Nelson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 753 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
087
WUUS53 KLMK 252251
SVRLMK
KYC093-123-179-252315-
/O.NEW.KLMK.SV.W.0011.210325T2251Z-210325T2315Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Louisville KY
651 PM EDT Thu Mar 25 2021
The National Weather Service in Louisville has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
Southwestern Nelson County in central Kentucky...
Larue County in central Kentucky...
Southeastern Hardin County in central Kentucky...
* Until 715 PM EDT.
* At 651 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles north of
Munfordville, moving northeast at 75 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable
tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes,
roofs, and outbuildings.
* Locations impacted include...
Elizabethtown, Hodgenville, New Haven, Upton, Sonora, Lyons,
Boundary Oak, Howardstown, Roanoke and Balltown.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight EDT for central
Kentucky.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3745 8597 3784 8579 3783 8576 3781 8574
3781 8569 3774 8541 3742 8573
TIME...MOT...LOC 2251Z 209DEG 64KT 3740 8587
HAIL...1.25IN
WIND...70MPH
$$
CG1 follow-up statement
069
WWUS53 KLMK 252308
SVSLMK
Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Louisville KY
708 PM EDT Thu Mar 25 2021
KYC093-123-179-252315-
/O.CON.KLMK.SV.W.0011.000000T0000Z-210325T2315Z/
Nelson KY-Larue KY-Hardin KY-
708 PM EDT Thu Mar 25 2021
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR SOUTHWESTERN NELSON...NORTH CENTRAL LARUE AND EAST CENTRAL HARDIN
COUNTIES...
At 708 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles northeast of
Hodgenville, moving northeast at 75 mph.
HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to
roofs, siding, and trees.
Locations impacted include...
New Haven, Lyons, Gethsemane, Athertonville, Nelsonville, Blue Gap,
Culvertown, Roanoke, Balltown and Younger Creek.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A Tornado Watch remains in effect until midnight EDT for central
Kentucky.
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.
&&
LAT...LON 3757 8561 3763 8583 3781 8574 3781 8569
3775 8544
TIME...MOT...LOC 2308Z 209DEG 64KT 3767 8568
HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
CGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 3:55 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | LMK | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 25, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Simpson, Warren | 46 min |
| Mar 25, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Warren | 36 min |
| Mar 25, 7:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| Mar 25, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer | 31 min |
| Mar 25, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 25 min |
| Mar 25, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Simpson | 24 min |
| Mar 25, 7:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Shelby | 37 min |
| Mar 25, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 35 min |
| Mar 25, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hardin | 33 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.