Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2022
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2022, 8:09 PM CDT for Ohio 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
- Aug 1, 2022, 8:09 PM CDT (01:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2022, 8:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Ohio County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 1827 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 31 min |
| Aug 1, 9:03 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Butler | 27 min |
| Aug 1, 9:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 30 min |
| Aug 1, 10:00 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 30 min |
| Aug 2, 2:32 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Logan | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.