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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 191, NWS Louisville, KY

August 1, 20247 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2024, 6:30 PM EDT for 7 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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, 2024, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2024, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Woodford County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:33 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, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 184 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: 787 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 Aug 1, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 5:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 5:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:42 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 1, 5:53 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 5:55 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 6:05 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 1, 6:14 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 1, 6:20 PM EDT, 10 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
Aug 1, 1:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	29 min
Aug 1, 1:22 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Monroe	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	36 min
Aug 1, 5:12 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	33 min
Aug 1, 12:44 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson and 7 more	6 hr
Aug 1, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	49 min
Aug 1, 4:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	47 min
Aug 1, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	46 min
Aug 1, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	43 min
Aug 1, 4:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	38 min
Aug 1, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	31 min
Aug 1, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin	38 min
Aug 1, 5:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Ohio	3 hr
Aug 1, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	26 min
Aug 1, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham, Shelby	42 min
Aug 1, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Larue, Nelson, Spencer	23 min
Aug 1, 5:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson	3 hr
Aug 1, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	47 min
Aug 1, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Hart	26 min
Aug 1, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson, Spencer	23 min
Aug 1, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin, Henry, Shelby	33 min
Aug 1, 5:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Taylor, Washington	35 min
Aug 1, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Henry, Jessamine, Mercer, Nelson and 5 more	44 min
Aug 1, 6:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	3 hr
Aug 1, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe, Simpson	40 min
Aug 1, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Warren	31 min
Aug 1, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Lincoln, Marion, Mercer, Taylor and 1 more	38 min
Aug 1, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott	63 min
Aug 1, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison, Mercer	47 min
Aug 1, 6:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe and 2 more	58 min
Aug 1, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Madison	37 min
Jul 31, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	43 min
Aug 1, 2:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	38 min
Aug 1, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	45 min
Aug 1, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	45 min
Aug 1, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford, Orange, Washington	33 min
Aug 1, 4:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	40 min
Aug 1, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Crawford	35 min
Aug 1, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Scott	27 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.