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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 224, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 2026, 2:40 AM CDT for Breckinridge County, Hancock County, Meade County, Kentucky; Crawford County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 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
- Aug 17, 2026, 2:40 AM CDT (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2026, 3:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Crawford County, IN, Perry County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Meade County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 284 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
- 1630 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 7:03 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Fayette, Scott, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Shelby, Spencer, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Clark, Garrard, Madison | 41 min |
| Aug 16, 7:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Scott | 3 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:38 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 2 hr |
| Aug 16, 7:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 23 min |
| Aug 17, 2:14 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Hancock | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 3:06 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Meade | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 4:42 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 33 min |
| Aug 17, 1:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LMK | Perry | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 3:13 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | LMK | Dubois, Perry | 3 hr |
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.