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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 177, NWS Louisville, KY

June 14, 1998Adair County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 9:47 PM CDT for Adair County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 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 14, 1998, 9:47 PM CDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1998, 10:35 PM CDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Adair County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 160 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 1998-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3344 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 1998-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 451 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
3344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
451 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
509 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
11.0
Supercell composite
67.6

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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

Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 14, 8:59 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
959 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0950 PM    1 N RADCLIFF              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   HARDIN                         POWER LINES DOWN. REPORT
                                          FROM LOCAL DISPATCH.
Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:18 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1018 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1010 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   HARDIN                         TREES ACROSS HWY 86 IN
                                          HOWEVALLEY.

1010 PM    BONNIEVILLE               KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   HART                           GUST TO 60 MPH.
Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:25 PM CDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1025 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1000 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   BULLITT                        TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ACROSS COUNTY

1015 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   BULLITT                        60 TO 65 MPH WINDS AT
                                          PIONEER VILLAGE
Local storm report, Jun 14, 9:45 PM CDT, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1045 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0945 PM    BROWNSVILLE               KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   EDMONSON                       TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                          NWS SPOTTER.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock, Ohio48 min
Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler, Grayson50 min
Jun 14, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge50 min
Jun 14, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan49 min
Jun 14, 8:14 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKLogan2 hr
Jun 14, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson, Warren45 min
Jun 14, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson44 min
Jun 14, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Hart48 min
Jun 14, 8:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLarue48 min
Jun 14, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion, Washington47 min
Jun 14, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Metcalfe46 min
Jun 14, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTaylor46 min
Jun 14, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson, Warren31 min
Jun 14, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Casey45 min
Jun 14, 9:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren30 min
Jun 14, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard, Jessamine, Mercer50 min
Jun 14, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWoodford50 min
Jun 14, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLincoln33 min
Jun 14, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard, Madison48 min
Jun 14, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Fayette49 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.