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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 2025Butler County, Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 2025, 3:56 PM CDT for Butler County, Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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, 2025, 3:56 PM CDT (20:56 UTC)
Expired: May 8, 2025, 4:30 PM CDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.25 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Butler County, KY, Ohio County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 684 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 596 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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, 2:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 8, 2:17 PM CDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 8, 12:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 8, 3:28 PM CDT, 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 3:30 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 3:35 PM CDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 3:40 PM CDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 3:47 PM CDT, 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 8, 3:48 PM CDT, 8 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 8, 12:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	30 min
May 8, 12:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	27 min
May 8, 12:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Butler, Ohio	32 min
May 8, 1:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	37 min
May 8, 1:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	33 min
May 8, 1:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	24 min
May 8, 1:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	24 min
May 8, 1:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Grayson	35 min
May 8, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	33 min
May 8, 2:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson	27 min
May 8, 2:11 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	34 min
May 8, 2:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	29 min
May 8, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart, Metcalfe	23 min
May 8, 2:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Russell	34 min
May 8, 2:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson, Hart	21 min
May 8, 2:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	25 min
May 8, 2:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	34 min
May 8, 2:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair	36 min
May 8, 3:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Jefferson	25 min
May 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Meade	37 min
May 8, 3:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Taylor	22 min
May 8, 3:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	34 min
May 8, 3:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	32 min
May 8, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Oldham	30 min
May 8, 3:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Ohio	3 hr
May 8, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	40 min
May 8, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	35 min
May 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Green, Hart	3 hr
May 8, 3:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	28 min
May 8, 3:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	42 min
May 8, 4:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	30 min
May 8, 4:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Butler, Ohio	3 hr
May 8, 4:37 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clinton	3 hr
May 8, 4:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	32 min
May 8, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	34 min
May 8, 5:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Edmonson	30 min
May 8, 6:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	30 min
May 8, 6:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	27 min
May 8, 6:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	20 min
May 8, 6:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	33 min
May 8, 1:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Floyd	26 min
May 8, 5:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Perry	31 min
May 8, 6:04 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Perry	3 hr

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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.