Kentucky Severe Severe Thunderstorm Warning | Effective 08/11/2026 17:18

Headline: 
Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 11 at 8:18PM EDT until August 11 at 9:00PM EDT by NWS Louisville KY
Event: 
Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Urgency: 
Immediate
Effective: 
August 11, 2026 - 5:18pm
Expires: 
August 11, 2026 - 6:00pm
Description: 
SVRLMK The National Weather Service in Louisville has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Central Hardin County in central Kentucky... * Until 900 PM EDT. * At 818 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 10 miles west of Elizabethtown, moving southeast at 20 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * Locations impacted include... Elizabethtown, Radcliff, Vine Grove, Cecilia, Long View, Howe Valley, Vertrees, Hansbrough, Addington Field Airport, and Crest.
Instruction: 
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Torrential rainfall is occurring with this storm, and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Area Description: 
Hardin, KY
Forcast Office: 
NWS Louisville KY
Sender: 
w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov