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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Louisville, KY

June 6, 1990Hardin County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1990, 4:19 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 1990, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 1990, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, IN, Hardin 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 208 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 12:00Z on 1990-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1990-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 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
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

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The text

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

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KYZ04-INZ015-062010-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
300 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 PM EDT...

AT 245 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHWEST
INDIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WAS FROM BLOOMINGTON INDIANA
TO OWENSBORO KENTUCKY.  SOME OF THE STORMS HAVE KNOCKED DOWN TREES
AND PRODUCED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL
BE MOVING THROUGH ORANGE...CRAWFORD...WASHINGTON AND HARRISON AND FLOYD
COUNTIES IN INDIANA BETWEEN 3 PM AND 4 PM EDT.

AS THESE STORMS APPROACH...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFE	TY INSIDE A STURDY
REINFORCED BUILDING.  PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE
FASTEST AND MOST UP TO DATE INFORMATION ON THIS SITUATION.
TUCEK
Special weather statement, Jun 6, 3:47 PM EDT, 32 minutes before
KYZ04-INZ015-062045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
345 PM EDT WED JUN 6 1990

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 8 PM EDT...

AT 330 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTHERN
INDIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS WAS IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON AND
NORTHEAST CRAWFORD COUNTIES IN INDIANA.  SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE
PRODUCED TORNADOES AND GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL.  IN THE LOUISVILLE METRO
AREA...THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEAR PAOLI.

THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE
STORMS WILL REACH DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. SOME STORMS HAVE BEEN QUITE DESTRUCTIVE
AND ALSO MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING.  IF A STORM APPRAOCHES YOU...TAKE
IMMEDIATE SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION.

TUCEKC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 3:40 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Meade65 min
Jun 6, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson45 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLarue, Nelson, Spencer49 min
Jun 6, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham, Shelby42 min
Jun 6, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble42 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion, Taylor, Washington54 min
Jun 6, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen54 min
Jun 6, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Franklin, Scott46 min
Jun 6, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFloyd41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1990Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1990Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.