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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Louisville, KY

July 29, 1994Jefferson County, Kentucky; Clark County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 1994, 2:39 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Kentucky; Clark County, Indiana. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 29, 1994, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
Expired
Jul 29, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clark County, IN, Jefferson County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 258 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1994-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 644 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1994-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
644 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1004 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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
Jul 29, 12:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion, Taylor54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1994Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.