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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Louisville, KY

June 21, 1994Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1994, 4:38 PM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1994, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1994, 5:10 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Madison County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 810 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 12:00Z on 1994-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
810 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1125 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 9:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPulaski26 min
Jun 21, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Montgomery, Powell48 min
Jun 21, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEstill51 min
Jun 21, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMadison35 min
Jun 21, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen36 min
Jun 21, 3:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford42 min
Jun 21, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKScott, Washington37 min
Jun 21, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson37 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.