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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 280, NWS Louisville, KY

June 27, 2025Marion County, Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2025, 1:16 PM EDT for Marion County, Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 27, 2025, 1:16 PM EDT (17:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2025, 1:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 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 17:15 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, 5.3 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: 2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 Jun 27, 12:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 12:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 12:20 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:24 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:34 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:45 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:50 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:55 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT, 3 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
Jun 26, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	29 min
Jun 27, 11:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	37 min
Jun 27, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion	26 min
Jun 27, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	36 min
Jun 27, 12:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion	26 min
Jun 27, 12:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	30 min
Jun 27, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	25 min
Jun 27, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	35 min
Jun 27, 1:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Marion	32 min
Jun 27, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Barren	27 min
Jun 27, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	32 min
Jun 27, 1:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	28 min
Jun 27, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Taylor	24 min
Jun 27, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	24 min
Jun 27, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hart	32 min
Jun 27, 2:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Barren	119 min
Jun 27, 2:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Casey, Marion, Taylor	118 min
Jun 27, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Hart	27 min
Jun 27, 2:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey	23 min
Jun 27, 2:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Hart	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Woodford	27 min
Jun 27, 2:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Green, Hart, Metcalfe	114 min
Jun 27, 2:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Green	24 min
Jun 27, 2:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Anderson	23 min
Jun 27, 3:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Metcalfe	117 min
Jun 27, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Hardin	24 min
Jun 27, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Cumberland	51 min
Jun 27, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Franklin	47 min
Jun 27, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	28 min
Jun 27, 3:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Henry	49 min
Jun 27, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clark	40 min
Jun 27, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bourbon	35 min
Jun 27, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	26 min
Jun 27, 3:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Fayette, Madison, Nicholas	2 hr
Jun 27, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	37 min
Jun 27, 3:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson, Warren	35 min
Jun 27, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Bullitt	23 min
Jun 27, 4:18 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren	3 hr
Jun 27, 4:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	24 min
Jun 27, 4:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Logan, Simpson	32 min
Jun 27, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Simpson	37 min
Jun 27, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	28 min
Jun 27, 5:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren	3 hr
Jun 27, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Warren	23 min
Jun 27, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Allen	37 min
Jun 27, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Butler	45 min
Jun 27, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Warren	26 min
Jun 27, 5:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Butler	2 hr
Jun 27, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	31 min
Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Grayson	43 min
Jun 27, 6:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	115 min
Jun 27, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	24 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.