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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Louisville, KY

June 22, 1996Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 11:18 PM EDT for Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1996, 11:18 PM EDT (03:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1996, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Rowan County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2598 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1996-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2598 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
952 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 12:03 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKFleming, Rowan57 min
Jun 23, 1:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKFleming, Rowan3 hr
Jun 23, 1:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison35 min
Jun 23, 2:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Montgomery35 min
Jun 23, 5:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren36 min
Jun 23, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren31 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.