Weather Alerts For Louisville Standiford Field, KY

Watch county notification for watch 43 National Weather Service Louisville KY 1159 AM EDT Wed Mar 11 2026 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Tornado Watch for portions of Southern Indiana Northern Kentucky Southern Ohio * Effective this Wednesday afternoon and evening from NOON until 600 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... A couple tornadoes possible Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible SUMMARY...Developing thunderstorms may pose some threat for a couple of tornadoes and damaging winds as they move quickly eastward through the afternoon. Isolated hail may also occur if a supercell can develop and be sustained. The tornado watch area is approximately along and 25 statute miles north and south of a line from 30 miles west of Louisville KY to 170 miles east northeast of Louisville KY. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU3). PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... REMEMBER...A Tornado Watch means conditions are favorable for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms in and close to the watch area. Persons in these areas should be on the lookout for threatening weather conditions and listen for later statements and possible warnings. && OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 41...WW 42... AVIATION...Tornadoes and a few severe thunderstorms with hail surface and aloft to 1.5 inches. Extreme turbulence and surface wind gusts to 60 knots. A few cumulonimbi with maximum tops to 400. Mean storm motion vector 26045.

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Louisville KY 1239 AM EDT Wed Mar 11 2026 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- Including the cities of Hawesville, Lexington, Brandenburg, Milton, Harrodsburg, Jeffersonville, Shelbyville, Frankfort, Richmond, Lancaster, Danville, Jasper, Taylorsville, Winchester, Lawrenceburg, Tell City, Georgetown, Hodgenville, Lebanon, New Albany, Bedford, New Castle, Shepherdsville, Elizabethtown, Salem, Scottsburg, Bardstown, Leitchfield, Springfield, La Grange, Versailles, Carlisle, Cynthiana, Paris, Hartford, Madison, Louisville, English, Corydon, Hardinsburg, Paoli, Lewisport, and Nicholasville 1239 AM EDT Wed Mar 11 2026 /1139 PM CDT Tue Mar 10 2026/ ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EDT /6 PM CDT/ THIS EVENING... * WHAT...Southwest winds 15 to 25 mph with widespread gusts of 30 to 40 mph expected. Scattered wind gusts of 40 to 45 mph are expected within the advisory area. * WHERE...Portions of south central Indiana and east central, north central, northwest, and south central Kentucky. * WHEN...From 8 AM EDT /7 AM CDT/ this morning to 7 PM EDT /6 PM CDT/ this evening. * IMPACTS...Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high profile vehicles. Use extra caution. &&

There is a Slight Severe Storm Risk for your location. Continue reading for today's outlook from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. -------------------- National Severe Storm Outlook THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT FROM THE OHIO VALLEY AND CENTRAL APPALACHIANS TO THE GULF COAST SUMMARY Isolated to scattered severe thunderstorms are expected through tonight from the ArkLaTex and Lower Mississippi Valley northeastward through the Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic. OH Valley/Appalachians through late evening A surface cyclone now in southeast Lower MI will move northeastward across the lower Great Lakes/Saint Lawrence Valley and deepen, in advance of an amplifying northern-stream shortwave trough now over the upper MS Valley. The warm sector of the cyclone is characterized by boundary-layer dewpoints in the low-mid 60s into OH/western PA/WV as of midday. Clouds/convection have been prevalent this morning across OH/western PA in advance of a subtle MCV, and the warmer surface temperatures have been confined to areas immediately south of this morning convection. Additional thunderstorm development is expected by early afternoon from southern IN/northern KY into southern OH/WV/western PA, and storms will spread generally eastward within the warm sector through this evening. SBCAPE of 1000-1500 J/kg and wind profiles with long low-level hodographs will support of a mix of line segments and supercells capable of producing a few tornadoes and swaths of damaging gusts before the threat begins to diminish by late evening. Southeast TX to MS/AL through tonight Thunderstorms are ongoing along a surface trough approaching southeast TX, and additional convection extends northeastward along a residual outflow/differential heating zone into the Ark-La-Miss. Daytime heating/destabilization and forcing for ascent downstream from a midlevel trough (now over the Edwards Plateau) will support a continued increase in storm coverage/intensity this afternoon from southeast TX into the Ark-La-Miss. Though regional soundings are limited in the main part of the moist sector this morning, surface observations and model forecast soundings suggest a corridor of moderate buoyancy (MLCAPE near 1500 J/kg) through the afternoon in advance of the ongoing storms. Deep-layer southwesterly shear, largely oriented along the convective band, will help maintain clusters and line segments, though embedded supercells are also possible. Low-level hodographs will be long enough to justify the potential for a few tornadoes with embedded circulations and/or favorable storm mergers into the band of storms. Otherwise, wind damage will be the main threat with the line segments through tonight.