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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 6, 1990Grayson County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1990, 3:31 PM CDT for Grayson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 1990, 3:31 PM CDT (20:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1990, 4:15 PM CDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Grayson County, KY

The radar

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

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 6, 3:45 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Grayson, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 150 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1344 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 062032
SVREVV
KYC085-062115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
331 PM CDT WED JUN 6 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  415 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
          ...GRAYSON
 
AT 325 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS FORMING NEAR
CANEYVILLE KENTUCKY...35 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN. THE STORM IS
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH...AND WILL BE OVER LIETCHFIELD KENTUCKY BY
345 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STR7ONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
RUNNELS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Union	63 min
Jun 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henderson	63 min
Jun 6, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Daviess	46 min
Jun 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock	46 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Logan, Todd	32 min
Jun 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Logan, Simpson	26 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.