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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 292, NWS Louisville, KY

August 8, 1996Logan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 4:01 PM CDT for Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 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
Aug 8, 1996, 4:01 PM CDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Aug 8, 1996, 4:30 PM CDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 1996-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2102 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 1996-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 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
2102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Aug 8, 2:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 1:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKPulaski4 hr
Aug 8, 2:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson38 min
Aug 8, 2:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin, Meade33 min
Aug 8, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson, Spencer36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.