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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Louisville, KY

May 15, 1990Casey County, Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1990, 6:18 PM EDT for Casey County, Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 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: May 15, 1990, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1990, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Casey County, KY, Taylor 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
May 15, 6:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Taylor, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 126 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1280 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 KSDF 152216
SVRSDF
KYC045-217-152300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
618 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
          ...CASEY...TAYLOR
 
AT 613 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 35 MILES NORTHWEST
OF SOMERSET...NEAR CAMPBELLSVILLE IN TAYLOR COUNTY. GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
WAS REPORTED AT 610 PM EDT IN CAMPBELLSVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST
AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO THE LIBERTY AREA BY 645 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  GO TO
THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR LOWEST LEVEL
IF POSSIBLE.  DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
 
GOETSCH

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, May 15, 4:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

KYZ007-152100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
410 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT FOR MERCER BOYLE ANDERSON AND
FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

AT 410PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR CINCINNATI OHIO
SOUTHWEST TO NEAR BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THE LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING
EAST AT NEAR 20 MPH AND WILL ENTER FRANKLIN AND ANDERSON COUNTIES 25 TO
30 MILElS WEST OF LEXINGTON BY 430PM EDT. THE STORMS COULD BE IN THE
LEXINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA BY 5 PM EDT. HAIL AND HIGH WINDS HAVE BEEN
REPORTED WITH MANY OF THESE STORMS.

Special weather statement, May 15, 4:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

INZ015-KYZ004-009-152125-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
325 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EDT.
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA TIL 8 PM EDT...

AT 313 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE IN A
LINE FROM COVINGTON KENTUCKY TO BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS
WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL AND HAIL WERE LOCATED BETWEEN SHELBYVILLE
AND FRNAKFORT KENTUCKY...OR ABOUT 23 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE...ANOTHER
STORM WAS ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOIUSVILLE IN GRAYSON COUNTY IN
KENTUCKY.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS
SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY DURING THE NEXT TWO
HOURS.
THESE STORMS HAVE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND HAIL. THERE COULD BE
MINOR FLOODING THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...MOVE QUICLY TO A A SAFE
INDOOR SHELTER. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FOR UPDATES...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY .

WILSON

Special weather statement, May 15, 4:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

KYZ007-1522100

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
435 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT FOR MERCER BOYLE ANDERSON AND
FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

AT 435PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR CINCINNATI OHIO
SOUTHWEST THRU FRANKLIN COUNTY KENTUCKY 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON
TO NEAR BOWLING GREEN KY. THE STRONG STORMS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY WILL MOVE
INTO SCOTT COUNTY NORTH OF LEXINGTON BY 5PM EDT. ALTHO NO SEVERE WEATHER
HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS THE HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF
LOWER LYING AREAS SUCH AS UNDERPASSES. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING
EAST AT NEAR 25 MPH.

Special weather statement, May 15, 5:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

KYZ007-1522130

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
505 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT FOR MERCER BOYLE ANDERSON AND
FRANKLIN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

AT 505PM EDT THE LEADING EDGE OF A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS EXTENDING
FROM NEAR AUGUSTA KENTUCKY ON THE OHIO RIVER SOUTH THRU HARRISON COUNTY
NORTH OF LEXINGTON TO MIDWAY IN WOODFORD COUNTY 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF
LEXINGTON SOUTHWEST TO ANDERSON COUNTY 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON.

THE LINE OF STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE TO THE EAST AT NEAR 25 MPH
AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH
MAY CAUSE SOME FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. THE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO
FAYETTE COUNTY BY 515PM EDT.

Special weather statement, May 15, 5:33 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

INZ015-KYZ004-009-152225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
525 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EDT.
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA TIL 8 PM EDT...

AT 525 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE IN A
LINE FROM LEXINGTON KENTUCKY TO BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS
WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL CLEAR:4
MINOR FLOODING THROUGHOUT SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...MOVE QUICLY TO A A SAFE
INDOOR SHELTER. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FOR UPDATES...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY .

WILSON

Special weather statement, May 15, 5:39 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

INZ015-KYZ004-009-152225-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECETION FOR MISSENT STATEMENT..
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
525 PM EDT TUE MAY 15 1990

...TORNADO WATCH FOR ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EDT.
...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA TIL 8 PM EDT...

AT 525 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL WERE IN A
LINE FROM LEXINGTON KENTUCKY TO BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS
WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE FROM CORINTH KENTUCKY...62 MILES EAST
OF LOUISVILLE TO CANEYVILLE KENTUCKY...62 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOU...MOVE QUICKLY TO A SAFE
INDOOR SHELTER. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE FOR UPDATES...STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY .
WILSON

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 2:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	31 min
May 15, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson	39 min
May 15, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	39 min
May 15, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	43 min
May 15, 7:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	43 min
May 15, 7:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Green	116 min
May 15, 7:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln, Pulaski, Russell	52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1990 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.