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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Louisville, KY

June 9, 1993Larue County, Nelson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1993, 5:37 PM EDT for Larue County, Nelson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1993, 5:37 PM EDT (21:37 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1993, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Larue County, KY, Nelson County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 1359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1036 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 9, 4:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

KYZ004-INZ015-013-092130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
430 PM EDT WED JUN 9 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...

AT 425 PM EDT... RADAR INDICATED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE
CONTINUING ACROSS THE SOUTH CENTRAL PORTION OF KENTUCKY. OVER NORTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SKIES WERE CLOUDY AND SOME
LIGHT RAIN WAS FALLING.

ALTHOUGH NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING OVER NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY OR
SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AT THIS TIME...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF THE AREA
MAY STILL PRODUCE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS
EVENING. PERSONS THROUGHOUT THIS AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:06 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:10 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

KYZ007-092300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
510 PM EDT WED JUN 9 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
UNTIL 700 PM EDT...

AT 515 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED LIGHT TO MODERATE RAIN SHOWERS
AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...MAINLY SOUTH OF LEXINGTON...MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.
STRONGER STORMS WERE LOCATED 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DANVILLE...ABOUT
55 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON.

BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE
WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...
TAKE COVER INSIDE UNTIL THEY HAVE PASSED AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER
RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES.

RIECK

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:12 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 9, 5:15 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	41 min
Jun 9, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	35 min
Jun 9, 5:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hardin	35 min

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.