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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 133, NWS Louisville, KY

June 10, 1998Anderson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT for Anderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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 10, 1998, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1998, 2:35 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Anderson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 189 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 812 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
812 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
617 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.0

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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 10, 1:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Meade30 min
Jun 10, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Nelson34 min
Jun 10, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette19 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan43 min
Jun 10, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson32 min
Jun 10, 6:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson2 hr
Jun 10, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren47 min
Jun 10, 7:12 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKAllen, Logan, Simpson, Warren3 hr
Jun 10, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKSimpson33 min
Jun 10, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison22 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.