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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 210, NWS Louisville, KY

August 17, 2024Logan County, Simpson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT for Logan County, Simpson 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: Aug 17, 2024, 6:15 PM CDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 2024, 6:45 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Logan County, KY, Simpson County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 985 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.7

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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 Aug 17, 2:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 2:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 17, 2:59 PM CDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 17, 5:02 PM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 5:05 PM CDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 17, 5:11 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 17, 5:33 PM CDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 17, 5:35 PM CDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 17, 5:52 PM CDT, 23 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 17, 11:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nicholas	23 min
Aug 17, 12:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	31 min
Aug 17, 12:44 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	31 min
Aug 17, 1:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	34 min
Aug 17, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin	46 min
Aug 17, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	33 min
Aug 17, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	29 min
Aug 17, 1:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Harrison	26 min
Aug 17, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Nicholas	24 min
Aug 17, 1:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Scott, Shelby, Woodford	24 min
Aug 17, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Scott, Woodford	32 min
Aug 17, 2:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford	26 min
Aug 17, 2:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Mercer, Nelson, Washington	31 min
Aug 17, 2:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	29 min
Aug 17, 2:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette	23 min
Aug 17, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	35 min
Aug 17, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Fayette, Franklin, Scott, Woodford	23 min
Aug 17, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer, Washington	23 min
Aug 17, 2:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Clark, Fayette, Jessamine, Madison	50 min
Aug 17, 2:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threat	LMK	Bourbon, Clark	19 min
Aug 17, 3:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Madison, Mercer, Washington	45 min
Aug 17, 3:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	28 min
Aug 17, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Marion, Washington	53 min
Aug 17, 4:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	34 min
Aug 17, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Madison	30 min
Aug 17, 4:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	30 min
Aug 17, 5:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham, Shelby	27 min
Aug 17, 5:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	25 min
Aug 17, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	34 min
Aug 17, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	23 min
Aug 17, 6:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade	36 min
Aug 17, 6:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Spencer	26 min
Aug 17, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Nelson, Spencer, Washington	30 min
Aug 17, 6:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	25 min
Aug 17, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Lincoln	24 min
Aug 17, 6:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen, Simpson	37 min
Aug 17, 6:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Nelson	36 min
Aug 17, 6:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	29 min
Aug 17, 6:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	31 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.