Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1990, 7:25 PM EDT for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 22, 1990, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Laurel 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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KSDF 222326
SVRSDF
KYC125-230000-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
725 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...LAUREL
AT 723 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES
NORTHEAST OF SOMERSET KENTUCKY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO LONDON BY 745 PM EDT. AT 710 EDT TREES WERE
REPORTED DOWN IN SCIENCE HILL...ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET.
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
GOETSCHWhat 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 22, 6:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KYZ009-222310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 620 PM EDT WED JUN 20 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 6 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF BARREN RIVER LAKE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHEAST END OF GREEN RIVER LAKE. BY 7 PM EDT...THESE STORMS WILL EXTEND FROM JUST NORTH OF SOMERSET TO JUST NORTHWEST OF DALE HOLLOW LAKE. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE STORMS. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS...BE READY TO MOVE INSIDE A STURDY REINFORCED BUILDING. IF YOU ARE BOATING ON ANY OF THE SOUTHERN KENTUCKY RESERVOIRS BE READY TO HEAD TO SHORE BEFORE THESE STORMS ARRIVE. TUCEK
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KYZ009-222310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 620 PM EDT WED JUN 20 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 6 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET SOUTHWEST TO JUST EAST OF BARREN RIVER LAKE. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE JUST NORTH OF LIBERTY KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHEAST END OF GREEN RIVER LAKE. BY 7 PM EDT...THESE STORMS WILL EXTEND FROM JUST NORTH OF SOMERSET TO JUST NORTHWEST OF DALE HOLLOW LAKE. HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE STORMS. IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS...BE READY TO MOVE INSIDE A STURDY REINFORCED BUILDING. IF YOU ARE BOATING ON ANY OF THE SOUTHERN KENTUCKY RESERVOIRS BE READY TO HEAD TO SHORE BEFORE THESE STORMS ARRIVE. TUCEK
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:37 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
KYZ007-222335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 635 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 635 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EASTERN HENRY COUNTY 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO FRANKLIN COUNTY AND THE CITY OF FRANKFORT BY 7PM EDT. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A SAFE BUILDING WHEN STORMS APPROACH AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCIES. TURN OFF ALL UNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 6:47 PM EDT, 38 minutes before
KYZ009-222310- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 645 PM EDT WED JUN 20 1990 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 635 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET OVER CASEY AND LINCOLN COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN CASEY COUNTY BETWEEN DUNNVILLE AND LIBERTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. BY 715 PM EDT...THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO EXTREME SOUTH PORTIONS OF CASEY AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS AND A STORM APPROACHES...MOVE INSIDE A STURDY REINFORCED BUILDING. THE STRONG STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WIND...SMALL HAIL AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. TUCEK
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:09 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
KYZ007-230010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 710 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 710 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN HARRISON COUNTY 5 MILES WEST OF CYNTHIANA OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. ANOTHER STRON THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF BEREA 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS GO INTO A SAFE BULIDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCIES. TURN OFF ALL UNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BH
Special weather statement, Jun 22, 7:12 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
KYZ007-230010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 710 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 1990 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 710 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN HARRISON COUNTY 5 MILES WEST OF CYNTHIANA OR 30 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY NEAR THE CITY OF BEREA 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN...ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS GO INTO A SAFE BULIDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. ALSO DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE EXCEPT FOR EMERGENCIES. TURN OFF ALL UNECESSARY ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES BH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 46 min |
| Jun 22, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.