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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY

June 7, 1990Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 7, 1990, 5:25 AM EDT for Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 7, 1990, 5:25 AM EDT (09:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 7, 1990, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN

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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 242 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 1990-06-07Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1990-06-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -215 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 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 7, 4:40 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
KYZ007-071030-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
440 AM EDT THU JUN 7 1990

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING RAPIDLY SOUTHEAST THROUGH
EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS MORNING AT 430 AM. THE LEADING EDGE OF THIS
LINE WAS GENERALLY FROM PORTSMOUTH OHIO THROUGH FLEMINGSBURG AND
WINCHESTER THEN SOUTHWEST TO DANVILLE. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
OVER FLEMING COUNTY NEAR FLEMINGSBURG...45 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON
...AND OVER SOUTHERN BOURBON COUNTY...24 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS THIS MORNING WERE PRODUCING BRIEF PERIODS OF VERY
HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO BE PRODUCED BY THESE THUNDERSTORMS.

WITH THE HEAVY AND SUDDEN DOWNPOURS PRODUCED BY SOME OF THE STRONGER
STORMS THIS MORNING...YOU SHOULD BE VERY CAUTIOUS OF PONDING AND STANDING
WATER ON AREA ROADS. POORLY DRAINING DITCHES AND SEWAGE SYSTEMS MAY ALSO
CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF AREA ROADS.
ULLOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 5:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair, Casey, Taylor44 min
Jun 7, 5:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson47 min
Jun 7, 6:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson49 min
Jun 7, 7:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson3 hr
Jun 7, 7:52 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKOldham3 hr
Jun 7, 8:39 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKJefferson51 min
Jun 7, 8:59 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKOldham, Shelby46 min
Jun 7, 8:59 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Spencer46 min
Jun 7, 5:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOrange, Washington51 min
Jun 7, 6:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington3 hr
Jun 7, 6:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison44 min
Jun 7, 8:27 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKHarrison48 min
Jun 7, 8:53 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKClark52 min
Jun 7, 9:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison, Orange, Washington3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.