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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY

May 19, 1989Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1989, 9:51 PM EDT for Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1989, 9:51 PM EDT (01:51 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1989, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hardin County, KY, Meade County, KY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1989-05-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 999 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1989-05-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 210 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
999 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1198 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
210 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.4
Supercell composite
6.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 9:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge50 min
May 19, 10:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989

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.