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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY

May 21, 1990Menifee County, Montgomery County, Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 21, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT for Menifee County, Montgomery County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 1990, 8:00 PM EDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1990, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell 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 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 122 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1990-05-22Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 00:00Z on 1990-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 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
686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KLEX 220000
TORLEX
KYC165-173-197-220045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED 
TORNADO WARNING 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
800 PM EDT MON MAY 21 1990

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING 
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING 
COUNTIES

   IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF KENTUCKY
      WESTERN MENIFEE...SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY...POWELL

AT 755 PM EDT...SEVERAL TORNADO WERE REPORTED IN THE CLOUD OVER
NORTHERN POWELL COUNTY. A TORNADO HAD DROPPED OUT OF THE CLOUD OVER
HAPPY TOP ALONG ROUTE 82 AND DOWNED TREES. THIS CLUSTER OF SEVERE
WEATHER WAS DRIFTING NORTH INTO SOUTHERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY AND
NORTHEAST INTO WESTERN MENIFEE COUNTY.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES...
TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

IF YOU LIVE IN A HOME OR APARTMENT...FIND SHELTER IN THE INNERMOST
PORTION OF THE BUILDING ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  GET TO A BASEMENT IF
ONE IS AVAILABLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ,PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING
DEBRIS WITH CUSHIONS...BLANKETS...OR PILLOWS.

 ULLOM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 8:30 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMadison60 min
May 21, 8:55 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAnderson, Franklin, Woodford50 min
May 21, 9:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBath, Montgomery3 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.