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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 207, NWS Louisville, KY

July 8, 2022Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2022, 3:39 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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 8, 2022, 3:39 PM CDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2022, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 1572 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 901 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 51 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 8, 2:40 PM CDT, 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 2:40 PM CDT, 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 3:00 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:24 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:46 PM CDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:48 PM CDT, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 8, 2:57 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 8, 3:22 PM CDT, 17 minutes 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 8, 12:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	26 min
Jul 8, 12:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	28 min
Jul 8, 12:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue	34 min
Jul 8, 12:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	3 hr
Jul 8, 12:47 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Nelson	63 min
Jul 8, 12:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	32 min
Jul 8, 1:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	26 min
Jul 8, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	24 min
Jul 8, 1:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	22 min
Jul 8, 1:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	18 min
Jul 8, 1:55 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Casey, Russell	27 min
Jul 8, 1:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	35 min
Jul 8, 2:02 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	13 min
Jul 8, 2:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	25 min
Jul 8, 2:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe	34 min
Jul 8, 2:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	21 min
Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	19 min
Jul 8, 2:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	26 min
Jul 8, 2:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	3 hr
Jul 8, 2:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	27 min
Jul 8, 2:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	32 min
Jul 8, 3:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	23 min
Jul 8, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Warren	24 min
Jul 8, 4:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	29 min
Jul 8, 4:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	25 min
Jul 8, 5:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	29 min
Jul 8, 5:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	14 min
Jul 8, 5:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	14 min
Jul 8, 8:40 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	35 min
Jul 8, 9:01 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Washington	29 min
Jul 8, 9:18 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	27 min
Jul 8, 9:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois, Orange	28 min
Jul 8, 10:25 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	35 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.