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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Louisville, KY

March 15, 20254 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 2025, 7:59 AM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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: Mar 15, 2025, 7:59 AM EDT (11:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 2025, 8:30 AM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Franklin County, KY, Henry County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:59 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
Mar 15, 2:36 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 170 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 226 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 Mar 15, 7:52 AM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 7:52 AM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 15, 7:46 AM EDT, 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:39 AM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:42 AM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:47 AM EDT, 12 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:50 AM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 7:51 AM EDT, 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
Mar 15, 4:51 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	39 min
Mar 15, 5:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade, Ohio	40 min
Mar 15, 5:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	23 min
Mar 15, 6:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	29 min
Mar 15, 6:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade	35 min
Mar 15, 6:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio	33 min
Mar 15, 6:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	25 min
Mar 15, 6:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	37 min
Mar 15, 6:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade, Ohio	32 min
Mar 15, 7:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Meade	23 min
Mar 15, 7:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	29 min
Mar 15, 7:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	35 min
Mar 15, 7:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Trimble	34 min
Mar 15, 11:38 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Ohio	22 min
Mar 15, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe	40 min
Mar 15, 5:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Allen, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren	9 hr
Mar 15, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe, Taylor	48 min
Mar 15, 5:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hancock, Hardin, Hart and 5 more	9 hr
Mar 15, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Casey, Clinton, Russell	25 min
Mar 15, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Clinton	16 min
Mar 15, 6:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby	7 hr
Mar 15, 7:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland, Monroe	7 hr
Mar 15, 4:08 AM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LMK	Dubois	20 min
Mar 15, 4:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	36 min
Mar 15, 4:34 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Washington	41 min
Mar 15, 4:48 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	27 min
Mar 15, 5:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Jefferson, Orange, Scott and 1 more	43 min
Mar 15, 5:11 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Perry, Washington	34 min
Mar 15, 6:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison, Orange, Perry, Washington	31 min
Mar 15, 6:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Harrison, Scott, Washington	22 min
Mar 15, 10:54 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	LMK	Dubois	21 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.