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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Louisville, KY

June 14, 1998Garrard County, Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 11:22 PM EDT for Garrard County, Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports 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 14, 1998, 11:22 PM EDT (03:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 1998, 12:10 AM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Garrard County, KY, Madison County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:25 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 14, 11:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Lancaster, KY
Jun 14, 11:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Richmond, 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 14, 11:00 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 98 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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, 10:25 PM EDT, 57 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, 10:45 PM EDT, 37 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.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 10:57 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1057 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

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

1020 PM    BARDSTOWN                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   NELSON                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                          DOWN. REPORT FROM COUNTY
                                          DISPATCH.

1025 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   LARUE                          TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          ACROSS COUNTY.  REPORT
                                          FROM DES DIRECTOR.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 11:05 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1105 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

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

1045 PM    CAMPBELLSVILLE            KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   TAYLOR                         TREES DOWN 2 MILES NORTH
                                          OF CAMPBELLSVILLE.  REPORT
                                          FROM DES.

1050 PM    ALLENDALE                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   GREEN                          TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                          POLICE.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 11:09 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1109 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

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

1045 PM    BOWLING GREEN             KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   WARREN                         TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          AT BOWLING GREEN AND I65.
                                          REPORT FROM COUNTY
                                          DISPATCH.

Local storm report, Jun 14, 11:15 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1115 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 1998

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

1045 PM    CHALYBEATE                KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/98   EDMONSON                       TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          DES DIRECTOR.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 8:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock, Ohio	48 min
Jun 14, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson	50 min
Jun 14, 9:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	50 min
Jun 14, 9:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	49 min
Jun 14, 9:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Logan	2 hr
Jun 14, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Warren	45 min
Jun 14, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin, Larue, Nelson	44 min
Jun 14, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	48 min
Jun 14, 9:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	48 min
Jun 14, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	47 min
Jun 14, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	46 min
Jun 14, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Taylor	46 min
Jun 14, 10:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Warren	31 min
Jun 14, 10:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey	45 min
Jun 14, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	30 min
Jun 14, 10:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	48 min
Jun 14, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Jessamine, Mercer	50 min
Jun 14, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	50 min
Jun 14, 11:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	33 min
Jun 14, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Fayette	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.