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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Louisville, KY

June 29, 2023Breckinridge County, Hancock County, Meade County, Kentucky; Crawford County, Harrison County, Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2023, 3:13 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Hancock County, Meade County, Kentucky; Crawford County, Harrison County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 47 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: Jun 29, 2023, 3:13 PM CDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2023, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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
Jun 29, 1:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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: 466 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -317 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1302 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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 Jun 29, 2:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 2:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 29, 2:18 PM CDT, 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 29, 12:59 PM CDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 1:08 PM CDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 1:40 PM CDT, 1 hour 33 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 1:56 PM CDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 1:58 PM CDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 3:05 PM CDT, 8 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
Jun 29, 8:06 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	39 min
Jun 29, 8:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	51 min
Jun 29, 9:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	50 min
Jun 29, 9:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	46 min
Jun 29, 9:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	29 min
Jun 29, 9:35 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Hancock	3 hr
Jun 29, 10:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	32 min
Jun 29, 10:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	13 min
Jun 29, 10:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	40 min
Jun 29, 10:36 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	3 hr
Jun 29, 10:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	23 min
Jun 29, 11:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Allen, Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren	34 min
Jun 29, 11:26 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson, Warren	34 min
Jun 29, 11:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren	31 min
Jun 29, 11:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren	3 hr
Jun 29, 12:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Simpson, Warren	63 min
Jun 29, 1:23 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Logan	3 hr
Jun 29, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Meade, Ohio	33 min
Jun 29, 3:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble	30 min
Jun 29, 4:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Franklin, Green and 12 more	26 min
Jun 29, 4:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart	35 min
Jun 29, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Logan, Monroe, Simpson	26 min
Jun 29, 5:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	32 min
Jun 29, 5:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	24 min
Jun 29, 6:24 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange	21 min
Jun 29, 7:01 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	44 min
Jun 29, 7:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Perry	46 min
Jun 29, 8:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	46 min
Jun 29, 8:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Dubois	3 hr
Jun 29, 9:13 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	32 min
Jun 29, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington	49 min
Jun 29, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Perry, Scott and 1 more	25 min
Jun 29, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd, Jefferson, Scott, Washington	45 min
Jun 29, 3:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	16 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2023 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 2023 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2023

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.