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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 188, NWS Louisville, KY

June 22, 1998Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 1:28 PM EST for Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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 22, 1998, 1:28 PM EST (18:28 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1998, 2:00 PM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Washington County, IN

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 1:40 PM ESTThunderstorm Wind 50Campbellsburg, IN

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 22, 11:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 1998-06-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 571 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 1998-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
571 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 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, Jun 22, 11:25 AM EST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 22, 1:26 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
811 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0811 PM    RUSSELL SPGS              KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   RUSSELL                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           BLOWN DOWN COUNTY WIDE.
                                           BARN BLOWN DOWN. REPORT
                                           FROM LOCAL POLICE.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 2:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham33 min
Jun 22, 3:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson35 min
Jun 22, 3:17 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison28 min
Jun 22, 3:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt27 min
Jun 22, 3:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson, Spencer27 min
Jun 22, 3:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKShelby27 min
Jun 22, 3:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Franklin, Washington30 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette, Jessamine, Woodford27 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKScott27 min
Jun 22, 4:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Harrison, Nicholas30 min
Jun 22, 4:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark31 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard, Madison31 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Lincoln31 min
Jun 22, 4:49 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBourbon, Clark116 min
Jun 22, 4:49 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKHarrison116 min
Jun 22, 5:03 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKLarue2 hr
Jun 22, 5:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair, Russell32 min
Jun 22, 2:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark27 min
Jun 22, 2:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFloyd, Harrison30 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.