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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Louisville, KY

June 22, 1998Clark County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 5:19 PM EDT for Clark County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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, 5:19 PM EDT (21:19 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 5:50 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Clark County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 22, 5:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Winchester, 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 22, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

980 
WUUS1 KSDF 222119 RRA
SVRSDF

KYC049-222150-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
519 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CLARK COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 550 PM EDT

* AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF LEXINGTON... MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WINCHESTER AT 525 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

RNK

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 22, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 53 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.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
311 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0309 PM    SCOTTSBURG                IN    .75 INCH HAIL
06/22/98   SCOTT                           REPORT FROM STATE POLICE.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
316 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0315 PM    1 S VIENNA                IN    1.75 INCH HAIL
06/22/98   SCOTT

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
405 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0350 PM    CORYDON                   IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   HARRISON                        TREES DOWN

0354 PM    FLOYDS KNOBS              IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   FLOYD                           TREES DOWN

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
412 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0345 PM    LA GRANGE                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OLDHAM                          TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                           STATE POLICE.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:44 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
444 PM EDT MON JUN 22 1998

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

0325 PM    BEDFORD                   KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   TRIMBLE                         TREES AND POWERS LINES
                                           DOWN IN NUMEROUS
                                           LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT
                                           COUNTY

0325 PM    LA GRANGE                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OLDHAM

0325 PM    NEW CASTLE                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   HENRY                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN IN NUMEROUS
                                           LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT
                                           COUNTY

0430 PM    MT WASHINGTON             KY    60 MPH TSTM GUST
06/22/98   BULLITT                         WINDS ESTIMATED BY OFF
                                           DUTY WEATHER SERVICE
                                           EMPLOYEE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	33 min
Jun 22, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	35 min
Jun 22, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	28 min
Jun 22, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	27 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Spencer	27 min
Jun 22, 4:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	27 min
Jun 22, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Washington	30 min
Jun 22, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	27 min
Jun 22, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	27 min
Jun 22, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	30 min
Jun 22, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	31 min
Jun 22, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Lincoln	31 min
Jun 22, 5:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark	116 min
Jun 22, 5:49 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	116 min
Jun 22, 6:03 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Larue	2 hr
Jun 22, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Russell	32 min

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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.