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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Louisville, KY

April 29, 1994Adair County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT for Adair County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued: Apr 29, 1994, 3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Apr 29, 1994, 4:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Adair County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 2030 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 2.0

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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, Apr 29, 10:21 AM CDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 10:54 AM CDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 11:54 AM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 12:12 PM CDT, 3 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 29, 2:10 PM CDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 29, 2:36 PM CDT, 39 minutes before

KYZ035>037-039>044-047>052-055>060-098-292100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
335 PM EDT FRI APR 29 1994

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BOYLE CO HAS EXPIRED...
...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BOYLE AND GARRARD COUNTIES UNTIL
1000 PM EDT...

AT 335 PM EDT...RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER LANCASTER...
ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST
NEAR 25 MPH AND WILL APPROACH RICHMOND BY AROUND 400 PM EDT.

HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE
LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO
POSSIBLE. IF A STORM SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE
UNTIL IT PASSES AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER
UPDATES.

RIECK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	38 min
Apr 29, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	53 min
Apr 29, 7:46 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer, Woodford	29 min
Apr 29, 8:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette, Scott	28 min
Apr 29, 8:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Menifee	32 min
Apr 29, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	46 min
Apr 29, 1:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	47 min
Apr 29, 2:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	51 min
Apr 29, 3:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	32 min
Apr 29, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Pulaski, Rockcastle	63 min
Apr 29, 3:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Scott	22 min
Apr 29, 4:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	McCreary	27 min
Apr 29, 8:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott, Washington	48 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.