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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 228, NWS Louisville, KY

July 28, 2022Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2022, 6:33 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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 28, 2022, 6:33 PM CDT (23:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 2022, 7:00 PM CDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Meade County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 1288 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 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 28, 2:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 2:32 PM CDT, 4 hours 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 2:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 28, 5:58 PM CDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 6:01 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 6:05 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 6:24 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 28, 6:31 PM CDT, 2 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 27, 7:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	51 min
Jul 27, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Logan, Simpson, Warren	40 min
Jul 27, 7:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	25 min
Jul 27, 7:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Metcalfe, Monroe	38 min
Jul 27, 7:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	36 min
Jul 27, 8:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Lincoln	27 min
Jul 27, 9:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Logan, Simpson	5 hr
Jul 27, 10:08 PM CDT	Flood Watch	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 30 more	12 hr
Jul 28, 12:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln	36 min
Jul 28, 1:35 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Marion, Taylor	4 hr
Jul 28, 1:52 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Marion, Taylor	4 hr
Jul 28, 3:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	2 hr
Jul 28, 2:37 PM CDT	Flood Watch	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 36 more	24 hr
Jul 28, 6:01 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge	3 hr
Jul 28, 6:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	29 min
Jul 28, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	25 min
Jul 28, 6:19 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Logan	80 min
Jul 28, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	36 min
Jul 28, 6:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	14 min
Jul 28, 6:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bullitt	3 hr
Jul 28, 6:39 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Warren	62 min
Jul 28, 6:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	104 min
Jul 28, 5:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	32 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.