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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 2024Marion County, Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2024, 6:14 PM EDT for Marion County, Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 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 8, 2024, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Marion County, KY, Taylor County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 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
May 8, 2:13 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 2219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 640 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 7.6

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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 8, 3:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 3:38 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 3:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 5:19 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 5:26 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:35 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:43 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:43 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 8, 5:55 PM EDT, 19 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 7, 8:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Meade	34 min
May 8, 1:24 AM EDT	Flood Watch	LMK	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more	31 hr
May 8, 1:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson, Meade	34 min
May 8, 2:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby	34 min
May 8, 2:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Bullitt, Franklin, Scott, Shelby, Spencer	19 min
May 8, 3:20 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson, Bourbon, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison, Scott and 1 more	25 min
May 8, 3:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette	31 min
May 8, 4:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson, Green, Hart, Larue	23 min
May 8, 5:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Taylor	28 min
May 8, 5:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green, Metcalfe, Taylor	34 min
May 8, 5:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	25 min
May 8, 6:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Simpson	28 min
May 8, 6:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Monroe	25 min
May 8, 7:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Simpson	30 min
May 8, 7:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	28 min
May 8, 7:42 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	33 min
May 8, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Metcalfe	28 min
May 8, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan	31 min
May 8, 2:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	17 min
May 8, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	23 min
May 8, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	31 min
May 8, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	27 min
May 8, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	1 min
May 8, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Breckinridge	23 min
May 8, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Logan, Warren	37 min
May 8, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Warren	37 min
May 8, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe	42 min
May 8, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	44 min
May 8, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Hart, Metcalfe, Taylor	46 min
May 8, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson	34 min
May 8, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	40 min
May 8, 4:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Green, Russell, Taylor	42 min
May 8, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Hart	29 min
May 8, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	34 min
May 8, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	25 min
May 8, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren, Monroe	35 min
May 8, 5:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Logan, Simpson	5 hr
May 8, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	36 min
May 8, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	34 min
May 8, 6:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Green, Hancock and 7 more	11 hr
May 8, 6:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	24 min
May 8, 6:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	29 min
May 8, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	38 min
May 8, 6:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	33 min
May 8, 7:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe	3 hr
May 8, 7:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Lincoln, Marion and 2 more	5 hr
May 8, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	24 min
May 8, 7:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Green, Marion, Taylor	37 min
May 8, 7:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	27 min
May 8, 7:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell, Taylor	17 min
May 8, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson, Ohio	41 min
May 7, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	15 min
May 7, 9:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	24 min
May 7, 9:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	19 min
May 8, 2:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Orange, Washington	28 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.