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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 2021Metcalfe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2021, 3:55 PM CDT for Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2021, 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2021, 4:18 PM CDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Metcalfe County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 Ssw Knob Lick, KY	DELAYED REPORT: TREE DOWN ON KNOB LICK WISDOM RD. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 1410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted.

608 
WUUS53 KLMK 132055
SVRLMK
KYC169-132130-
/O.NEW.KLMK.SV.W.0051.210613T2055Z-210613T2130Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
National Weather Service Louisville KY
355 PM CDT Sun Jun 13 2021

The National Weather Service in Louisville has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for...
  Northern Metcalfe County in south central Kentucky...

* Until 430 PM CDT.

* At 354 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Edmonton,
  moving southeast at 10 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...
  Edmonton.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a
building.

&&

LAT...LON 3701 8575 3707 8576 3711 8576 3712 8575
      3707 8553 3693 8569
TIME...MOT...LOC 2054Z 307DEG 8KT 3704 8571 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

RAS

1 follow-up statement

188 
WWUS53 KLMK 132118
SVSLMK

Severe Weather Statement
National Weather Service Louisville KY
418 PM CDT Sun Jun 13 2021

KYC169-132128-
/O.CAN.KLMK.SV.W.0051.000000T0000Z-210613T2130Z/
Metcalfe KY-
418 PM CDT Sun Jun 13 2021

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN METCALFE COUNTY
IS CANCELLED...
                
The storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe
limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property.
Therefore, the warning has been cancelled.  However heavy rain is
still possible with this thunderstorm.

LAT...LON 3701 8575 3707 8576 3711 8576 3712 8575
      3707 8553 3693 8569
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 307DEG 8KT 3701 8566 

$$

RAS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	25 min
Jun 12, 7:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Jun 12, 8:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Jun 13, 2:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	25 min
Jun 13, 4:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	37 min
Jun 13, 1:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	37 min
Jun 13, 1:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	32 min
Jun 13, 1:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	23 min
Jun 13, 1:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	32 min
Jun 13, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	27 min
Jun 13, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	28 min
Jun 13, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Spencer	25 min
Jun 13, 2:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Scott	36 min
Jun 13, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	31 min
Jun 13, 3:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	38 min
Jun 13, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	29 min
Jun 13, 3:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Scott	4 hr
Jun 13, 3:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	41 min
Jun 13, 4:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	35 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Woodford	2 hr
Jun 13, 4:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	26 min
Jun 13, 5:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.