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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 190, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2026, 10:10 PM EDT for 7 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 65 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
- Jul 27, 2026, 10:10 PM EDT (02:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2026, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Boyle County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 7:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1538 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 895 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 8:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 8:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Harrison | 31 min |
| Jul 27, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Trimble | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 8:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Harrison, Scott | 49 min |
| Jul 27, 9:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Franklin, Harrison, Henry, Nicholas and 2 more | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 9:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Franklin, Scott, Shelby | 41 min |
| Jul 27, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Shelby, Spencer, Woodford | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Clark, Fayette, Garrard and 5 more | 52 min |
Nearby
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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.