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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Louisville, KY

June 2, 1998Logan County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1998, 10:44 PM CDT for Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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 2, 1998, 10:44 PM CDT (03:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1998, 11:20 PM CDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Logan County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 2, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3179 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
3179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1434 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
6.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan31 min
Jun 2, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren31 min
Jun 3, 12:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMonroe21 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.