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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 103, NWS Louisville, KY

May 23, 2024Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2024, 4:14 PM CDT for Cumberland County, Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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: May 23, 2024, 4:14 PM CDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2024, 4:45 PM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cumberland County, KY, Monroe County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 23, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 116 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: 1022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

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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 May 22, 6:53 PM CDT, 21 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 6:53 PM CDT, 21 hours 21 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
May 22, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	32 min
May 23, 3:44 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	31 min
May 23, 4:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	34 min
May 23, 4:37 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren, Monroe	23 min
May 23, 4:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	33 min
May 23, 5:07 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe	23 min
May 23, 6:47 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	28 min
May 23, 7:09 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue, Marion, Nelson	33 min
May 23, 7:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	38 min
May 23, 1:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	23 min
May 23, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	23 min
May 23, 2:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	27 min
May 23, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	34 min
May 23, 2:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	33 min
May 23, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	29 min
May 23, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	30 min
May 23, 3:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	24 min
May 23, 3:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe, Monroe	23 min
May 23, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Metcalfe	34 min
May 23, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Taylor	37 min
May 23, 4:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Monroe	3 hr
May 23, 5:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	30 min
May 23, 5:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	10 min
May 23, 5:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	24 min
May 23, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	30 min
May 23, 6:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	37 min
May 23, 6:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Shelby	3 hr

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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.