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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 304, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 28, 2025, 8:36 PM EST for 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 24 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
- Dec 28, 2025, 8:36 PM EST (01:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 28, 2025, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crawford County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Washington County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 3:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1136 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 324 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 440 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 Dec 28, 7:58 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 7:58 PM EST, 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 28, 3:19 PM EST, 5 hours 17 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Louisville KY 319 PM EST Sun Dec 28 2025 INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-292030- Orange-Washington IN-Scott IN-Jefferson IN-Dubois-Crawford-Perry- Harrison IN-Floyd-Clark IN-Hancock-Breckinridge-Meade-Ohio-Grayson- Hardin-Bullitt-Jefferson-Oldham-Trimble-Henry-Shelby-Franklin- Scott KY-Harrison KY-Spencer-Anderson-Woodford-Fayette-Bourbon- Nicholas-Nelson-Washington KY-Mercer-Jessamine-Clark KY-Larue-Marion- Boyle-Garrard-Madison-Butler-Edmonson-Hart-Green-Taylor-Casey- Lincoln-Logan-Warren-Simpson-Allen-Barren-Monroe-Metcalfe-Adair- Russell-Cumberland-Clinton- 319 PM EST Sun Dec 28 2025 /219 PM CST Sun Dec 28 2025/ This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southern Indiana and central Kentucky. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Strong wind gusts approaching 40 mph will be possible late this afternoon and evening ahead of a strong cold front. A thin line of showers, likely accompanied by strong wind gusts, will race east across central Kentucky and southern Indiana between 7 PM this evening and 1 AM EST Monday. Localized damaging winds will be possible during this time. There is also a very low chance for a brief tornado in areas west of I-65. A Wind Advisory is in effect for the entire outlook area this evening and into the overnight hours. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Tuesday morning will be very cold, with wind chills briefly dropping into the single digits. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. && More information, along with other weather, hydrological and climate information can be found, at weather.gov/louisville. MJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 28, 9:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 9:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 29 min |
| Dec 28, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 25 min |
| Dec 28, 9:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 20 min |
| Dec 28, 9:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson, Meade | 27 min |
| Dec 28, 9:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Meade | 34 min |
| Dec 28, 10:01 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Spencer | 29 min |
| Dec 28, 9:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd, Harrison, Washington | 37 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.