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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2025, 7:12 PM EDT for Harrison County, Nicholas County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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
- Apr 30, 2025, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2025, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harrison County, KY, Nicholas County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Apr 29, 7:34 PM EDT, 23 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 29, 7:34 PM EDT, 23 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 29, 8:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 49 min |
| Apr 29, 8:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Cumberland, Russell | 39 min |
| Apr 29, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 39 min |
| Apr 30, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Madison | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 25 min |
| Apr 30, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 6:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Scott, Woodford | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Scott, Woodford | 14 min |
| Apr 30, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Robertson | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 7:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Washington | 24 min |
| Apr 30, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Washington | 17 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.