Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2021, 1:20 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Jul 6, 2021, 1:20 PM CDT (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2021, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Breckinridge County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 1:25 PM CDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 Ne Garfield, KY | FALLEN TREE DOWN OVER ROADWAY, NOW HAS BEEN CLEARED ON HIGHWAY 60 NORTHEAST OF GARFIELD. |
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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -69 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1444 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
221 WUUS53 KLMK 061820 SVRLMK KYC027-061845- /O.NEW.KLMK.SV.W.0069.210706T1820Z-210706T1845Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED Severe Thunderstorm Warning National Weather Service Louisville KY 120 PM CDT Tue Jul 6 2021 The National Weather Service in Louisville has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Breckinridge County in central Kentucky... * Until 145 PM CDT. * At 120 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles east of Hardinsburg, moving southwest at 15 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Hardinsburg. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. && LAT...LON 3794 8637 3781 8618 3760 8631 3780 8654 TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 044DEG 14KT 3779 8627 HAIL...0.88IN WIND...60MPH $$ JML
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 6, 11:32 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Fayette | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 12:40 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hardin | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 1:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hardin | 25 min |
| Jul 6, 1:17 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Nelson | 28 min |
| Jul 6, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 31 min |
| Jul 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Mercer | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Woodford | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 2:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Woodford | 35 min |
| Jul 6, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 2:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Woodford | 34 min |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 24 min |
| Jul 6, 3:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 3:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Nicholas | 19 min |
| Jul 6, 3:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 26 min |
| Jul 6, 3:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Shelby | 18 min |
| Jul 6, 3:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Washington | 14 min |
| Jul 6, 3:49 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Scott | 116 min |
| Jul 6, 3:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Nicholas | 22 min |
| Jul 6, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Shelby | 18 min |
| Jul 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott | 30 min |
| Jul 6, 4:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas | 27 min |
| Jul 6, 4:16 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Shelby | 14 min |
| Jul 6, 4:19 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 90 min |
| Jul 6, 4:25 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Oldham | 20 min |
| Jul 6, 4:29 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry | 16 min |
| Jul 6, 4:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Trimble | 31 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.