1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 18, 3:10 PM EST, 50 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 310 PM EST TUE NOV 18 2003 .SHORT TERM (TNGT THROUGH FRIDAY)... WIDESPREAD RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS NOW SPREADING ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY. LINEAR LINE SEGMENT APPARENT MOVING THROUGH CTRL KY ATTM AND XTRM SRN IN...IN A SOMEWHAT WEAKER STATE. SOME EMBEDDED WIND GUSTS INTO SVR CRITERIA STILL APPEAR POSSIBLE MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN PORTION CTRL KY. WATCHING FOR ANY BOWING SEGMENTS THAT CAN TRANSLATE DOWN THE WINDS FROM THE LLJ WHICH ARE AROUND 70KTS. SFC BASED LIS ONLY AROUND 0 LIMITED TO SRN KY FOR MUCH OF TDY. ALSO STARTING TO GET A LITTLE BACKING IN THE WIND FIELD JUST OFF THE SFC. SVR THREAT WILL STILL BE WITH US THIS EVNG BUT MAINLY OVR SRN KY ONCE AGAIN WHEN FROPA OCCURS LATER THIS EVNG. MAIN BATCH SHOULD TRANSLATE OUT OF OUR FA SHORTLY AFTER DARK. SECOND BATCH IN CONJUNCTION WITH COLD FRONT AND UPPER LO CENTER...NOW FIRING UP OVER SRN MO/AR LOOKS TO BRUSH SRN KY BUT FOR THE MOST PART WILL STAY TO THE SOUTH OF KY OVERNGT. THEREFORE RAIN SHOULD BE OVER ACROSS NRN KY AND SRN IN BY ABOUT 00Z WITH PRECIP CONTINUING OVER THE FAR SOUTH AND ERN PORTION OVERNIGHT. ETA AND GFS BOTH AGREE ON SFC WAVE TRANSLATING ACROSS MID TN INTO THE MID APPS WEDNESDAY MRNG...KEEPING LIKELY POPS OVER SRN AND ERN PORTION OF CTRL KY. ON WEDNESDAY CLOUDS WILL HANG THROUGH MUCH OF THE DAY. ETA IS MUCH MORE OPTIMISTIC WITH SHARP CLEARING LINE MOVING THROUGH ABOUT MIDDAY. PLAN TO GO A LITTLE SLOWER THAN THAT WITH SOME CLEARING WEST DURING THE AFTN BUT HOLDING OFF ON ANY CLEARING EAST UNTIL EVNG. UPPER MOVES TO MID ATLC COAST BY FRIDAY WITH MOISTURE SPINNING OFF THE BACKSIDE AND INTO ERN KY/SRN OH/WV VCNTY. WITH MODEST DOWNSLOPE EFFECT HERE DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WILL AFFECT OUR CLOUD FCST AND WILL CONTINUE MOSTLY SUNNY FCST THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AS SFC RIDGING WORKS ACROSS OH VLY. WINDS SHIFT MORE TO SWLY ON THURSDAY AND FRI BEHIND THE RIDGE. .EXTENDED (FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY)... EXTENDED MODELS HAVE A TOUGH TIME IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD WITH LARGE SPREADS IN THE MODEL OUTPUT. BASICALLY THIS WILL RESULT IN A LOW CONFIDENCE FORECAST AT BEST. OVERALL SYNOPTIC PATTERN SHOWS A DEVELOPING WEATHER SYSTEM OVER THE INTER-MOUNTAIN WEST BY SUNDAY AS LARGE GYRE DEVELOPS AT THE H5 LEVEL. MODEL DIFFERENCES ARE QUITE LARGE AT THIS TIME WITH SOME OF THE MODELS PUSHING THE SYSTEM TO THE EAST WHILE THE OTHERS HOLD BACK THE SYSTEM. USING A COMPROMISE...IT APPEARS THAT ANOTHER FRONTAL BOUNDARY WILL SWING THROUGH THE REGION LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY MORNING. MUCH COLDER AIR WILL FILTER INTO THE REGION MONDAY EVENING. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE THEN BUILDS IN FOR TUESDAY AND THEN ANOTHER WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY IS EXPECTED TO PASS THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY. PREVIOUS EXTENDED FORECAST WAS IN GOOD SHAPE AND ONLY SOME MINOR CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE GRIDS. AS FAR AS TEMPERATURES...USED A BLEND OF HPC GUIDANCE ALONG WITH THE 00Z GFS ENSEMBLES. .LMK...NONE. JB/MJ
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067- 070>078-081-082-190915- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1200 PM EST TUE NOV 18 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A COLD FRONT EXTENDS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY AT MIDDAY...WITH GENEROUS MOISTURE AND STRONG WINDS ALOFT WORKING OUT AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND INTO THE OHIO VALLEY. THE COLD FRONT WILL SLOWLY ADVANCE EAST THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. WIDESPREAD RAIN AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE REMAINDER OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTHERN INDIANA BY MID AFTERNOON. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP MAY BECOME STRONG. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WHERE A FEW STORMS COULD CONTAIN WIND GUSTS TO SEVERE LEVELS OF 60 MPH OR HIGHER. RAINFALL OF 1 TO 2 INCHES IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT WITH A THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. LOCAL AREAS COULD RECEIVE UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN...MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN KENTUCKY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP EAST OF KENTUCKY ON WEDNESDAY BRINGING AN END TO THE WIDESPREAD RAINS. BY MIDDAY WEDNESDAY MOST RAIN SHOULD BE OUT OF THE OUTLOOK AREA. CLEARING SKIES WILL FOLLOW SOON THEREAFTER. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR ANY REPORTS OF FLOODING OR SEVERE WEATHER. JB
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:59 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The sides of a large industrial storage building were blown in. A barn was blown down on Radio Station Road.
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