Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1994, 5:33 PM EDT for McCreary County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 29, 1994, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 29, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCreary County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.
- 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
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
Local storm report, Apr 29, 4:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
420 PM EDT FRI APR 29 1994
TIME REPORT AND LOCATION
410 PM EDT ADAIR COUNTY- SPOTTERS REPORTED DIME SIZED HAIL IN SPARKSVILLE.
DIME SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS 40-50 MPH IN BREEDING.
KKLocal storm report, Apr 29, 4:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
422 PM EDT FRI APR 29 1994
TIME REPORT AND LOCATION
422 PM EDT ONE INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN MILLTOWN IN ADAIR COUNTY. THE
HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC.
CHANCELocal storm report, Apr 29, 4:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
423 PM EDT FRI APR 29 1994
TIME REPORT AND LOCATION
423 PM EDT PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT AT
RUSSELL SPRINGS IN RUSSELL COUNTY.
CHANCESpecial weather statement, Apr 29, 4:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KYZ035>037-039>044-047>052-055>060-098-292200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 425 PM EDT FRI APR 29 1994 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR BOYLE AND GARRAD COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM EDT... AT 425 PM EDT...RADAR DETECTED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF GEORGETOWN....ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...AND ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF FRANKFORT...25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 25 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS GEORGETOWN AND FRANKFORT BY 440 PM EDT. HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS IS ALSO POSS6IBLE. IF A STORM SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE UNTIL IT PASSES AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. ^ RIECK
Local storm report, Apr 29, 4:54 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
452 PM EDT FRI APR 29 1994
TIME REPORT AND LOCATION
432 PM EDT SEVENTY MILE AN HOUR WINDS WERE REPORTED BY A VOLUNTEER
FIREMAN AT KNIFLEY IN ADAIR COUNTY.
CHANCELocal storm report, Apr 29, 5:14 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rowan | 38 min |
| Apr 29, 8:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 53 min |
| Apr 29, 8:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Woodford | 29 min |
| Apr 29, 9:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Scott | 28 min |
| Apr 29, 9:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Menifee | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 46 min |
| Apr 29, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 47 min |
| Apr 29, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 51 min |
| Apr 29, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 45 min |
| Apr 29, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 32 min |
| Apr 29, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 63 min |
| Apr 29, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 22 min |
| Apr 29, 9:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Washington | 48 min |
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.