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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 293, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2023, 11:24 AM EDT for Franklin County, Scott 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 7, 2023, 11:24 AM EDT (15:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, KY, Scott County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:26 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 7, 10:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 153 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 Aug 7, 10:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 10:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 7, 1:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Trimble | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 1:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Trimble | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 2:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 2:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 3:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Ohio | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 4:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Breckinridge | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 4:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 4:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Aug 7, 5:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Shelby | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 5:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 10:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clinton | 26 min |
| Aug 7, 11:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 46 min |
| Aug 7, 11:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Scott | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 12:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Scott | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 12:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 12:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Scott | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 12:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark, Fayette | 38 min |
| Aug 7, 12:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 12:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette | 34 min |
| Aug 7, 12:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 12:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 27 min |
| Aug 7, 12:52 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange, Washington | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Jefferson, Scott, Washington | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 2:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 30 min |
| Aug 7, 2:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 33 min |
| Aug 7, 3:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 23 min |
| Aug 7, 3:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison, Washington | 24 min |
| Aug 7, 4:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Crawford, Floyd | 45 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.