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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Louisville, KY

June 4, 1993Breckinridge County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 11:45 AM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1993, 11:45 AM CDT (16:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1993, 12:15 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Breckinridge County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 2854 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 755 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 157 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 10.6

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The text

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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 4, 11:01 AM CDT, 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 11:18 AM CDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 4, 11:31 AM CDT, 14 minutes before

KYZALL-041700-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1230 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

...PORTIONS OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 331 FOR WEST AND CENTRAL
KENTUCKY HAVE BEEN CLEARED...

THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS CLEARED THAT PORTION
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMMBER 331 TO THE WEST OF A LINE FROM
20 MILES NORTHEAST OF PADUCAH TO 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF PADUCAH.
THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF BALLARD...CARLISLE...HICKMAN...FULTON
...MCCRACKEN...GRAVES...MARSHALL AND CALLOWAY.

THE COUNTIES OF LIVINGSTON...CRITTENDEN...LYON...CALDWELL AND TRIGG
REMAIN IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AT THE PRESENT TIME.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR CO(MMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR
FURTHER STATEMENTS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
RNK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 4, 1:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Meade	63 min
Jun 4, 2:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	40 min
Jun 4, 5:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	35 min
Jun 4, 5:53 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Oldham, Shelby	37 min
Jun 4, 6:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	50 min
Jun 4, 7:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	51 min
Jun 4, 7:38 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	52 min
Jun 4, 8:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	49 min
Jun 4, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	33 min
Jun 4, 8:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	29 min
Jun 4, 8:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	26 min
Jun 4, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	22 min
Jun 4, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Woodford	47 min
Jun 4, 9:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Montgomery	39 min
Jun 4, 9:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine, Madison	40 min
Jun 4, 10:07 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Menifee	68 min
Jun 4, 11:52 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	53 min
Jun 4, 12:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	35 min
Jun 4, 12:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	41 min
Jun 4, 12:42 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	2 hr
Jun 4, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	37 min
Jun 4, 12:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey, Russell	52 min
Jun 4, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	40 min
Jun 4, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	40 min
Jun 4, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Pulaski, Wayne	49 min
Jun 4, 1:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln, Rockcastle	49 min
Jun 4, 1:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	48 min
Jun 4, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	40 min
Jun 4, 1:45 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Estill, Powell	60 min
Jun 4, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Whitley	29 min
Jun 4, 6:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	37 min

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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.