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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Louisville, KY

February 28, 2024Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 28, 2024, 8:00 AM EST for Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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: Feb 28, 2024, 8:00 AM EST (13:00 UTC)
Expired: Feb 28, 2024, 8:30 AM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Casey County, KY, Lincoln County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:02 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
Feb 28, 3:56 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 243 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 871 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 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 Feb 28, 7:38 AM EST, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 28, 7:38 AM EST, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 28, 7:16 AM EST, 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 28, 6:59 AM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Feb 28, 7:11 AM EST, 49 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 28, 7:21 AM EST, 39 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 28, 7:26 AM EST, 34 minutes before

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Local storm report, Feb 28, 7:29 AM EST, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Feb 28, 7:55 AM EST, 5 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
Feb 28, 2:53 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hancock	37 min
Feb 28, 3:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	39 min
Feb 28, 3:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	32 min
Feb 28, 3:36 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	24 min
Feb 28, 3:40 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	35 min
Feb 28, 3:55 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	35 min
Feb 28, 3:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	34 min
Feb 28, 4:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	32 min
Feb 28, 4:28 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	32 min
Feb 28, 4:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	31 min
Feb 28, 4:48 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin	27 min
Feb 28, 4:57 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	33 min
Feb 28, 5:01 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	29 min
Feb 28, 5:05 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Scott	25 min
Feb 28, 5:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Meade	32 min
Feb 28, 5:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott, Woodford	32 min
Feb 28, 5:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Meade	33 min
Feb 28, 5:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas	30 min
Feb 28, 5:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Woodford	28 min
Feb 28, 5:41 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Scott, Shelby and 2 more	34 min
Feb 28, 5:51 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Hardin, Meade, Ohio	3 hr
Feb 28, 5:57 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson, Hardin, Nelson, Spencer	33 min
Feb 28, 6:07 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Nicholas, Scott, Woodford	23 min
Feb 28, 6:15 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Larue, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer and 2 more	30 min
Feb 28, 6:17 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Larue and 3 more	28 min
Feb 28, 6:22 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette	3 hr
Feb 28, 6:25 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Meade, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	3 hr
Feb 28, 6:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine and 4 more	52 min
Feb 28, 6:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Edmonson, Green, Hart, Larue, Marion and 3 more	30 min
Feb 28, 6:53 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon	3 hr
Feb 28, 6:59 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan	31 min
Feb 28, 7:09 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine and 4 more	36 min
Feb 28, 7:11 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Green, Hart, Lincoln, Marion and 1 more	49 min
Feb 28, 7:26 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Barren, Metcalfe, Simpson	34 min
Feb 28, 7:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Clark, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	33 min
Feb 28, 7:55 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	35 min
Feb 28, 9:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon	19 hr
Feb 28, 3:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	28 min
Feb 28, 3:55 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange	20 min
Feb 28, 4:35 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	25 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.