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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 248, NWS Louisville, KY

June 23, 1996Harrison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1996, 1:55 AM EDT for Harrison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 1996, 1:55 AM EDT (05:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 1996, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Harrison County, KY

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 23, 2:20 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Northern Part, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 119 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, Jun 23, 12:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

KYZ001>022-035>037-039>044-047>052-054>120-INZ090>092-230525-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1219 AM EDT (1119 PM CDT) SUN JUN 23 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST AND EAST KENTUCKY...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 673 REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE
FOLLOWING COUNTIES UNTIL 2AM EDT...
BRACKEN...ROBERTSON...FLEMING...ROWAN...ELLIOT...MORGAN...MAGOFFIN
...JOHNSON...LEWIS...AND MASON.  SEVERE WEATHER CONTINUES TO BE
POSSIBLE IN THESE COUNTIES.  IN ADDITION HEAVY RAINS MAY PRODUCE FLASH
FLOODING.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 673 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR THE
REMAINDER OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANAr.  SEVERE
WEATHER IS NO LONGER A THREAT IN THOSE COUNTIES.  SCATTERED SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE HOWEVER.

RNK

Local storm report, Jun 23, 1:44 AM EDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 11:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	42 min
Jun 23, 12:03 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fleming, Rowan	57 min
Jun 23, 1:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Fleming, Rowan	3 hr
Jun 23, 2:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bath, Montgomery	35 min
Jun 23, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	36 min
Jun 23, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.