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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 204, NWS Louisville, KY

June 22, 1998Adair County, Russell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1998, 5:13 PM CDT for Adair County, Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min. 3 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 22, 1998, 5:13 PM CDT (22:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 1998, 5:45 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Adair County, KY, Russell County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Jun 22, 5:28 PM CDT	Hail 1	Columbia, KY
Jun 22, 5:30 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Columbia, KY
Jun 22, 5:43 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Russell Spgs, 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -197 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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

Local storm report, Jun 22, 3:44 PM CDT, 1 hour 29 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

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:21 PM CDT, 52 minutes before

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

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

0340 PM    LA GRANGE                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   OLDHAM                          *** 2 INJ ***
                                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN ALONG US 42
                                           THROUGHOUT COUNTY.
                                           INJURIES CAUSED BY
                                           TREES FALLING, ONE ON A
                                           HOUSE.

0430 PM    SHELBYVILLE               KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   SHELBY                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN

0445 PM    1 N BARDSTOWN             KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   NELSON                          TREES DOWN

0455 PM    FRANKFORT                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   FRANKLIN                        TREES DOWN

0455 PM    LAWRENCEBURG              KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   ANDERSON                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN

0455 PM    WILLISBURG                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   WASHINGTON                      TREES DOWN BLOCKING
                                           ROADS IN MANY PARTS OF
                                           COUNTY

0500 PM    PARIS                     KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   BOURBON                         TREES DOWN IN CITY AND
                                           SW PART OF COUNTY

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:26 PM CDT, 47 minutes before

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

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

0340 PM    SELLERSBURG               IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   CLARK                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN COUNTY WIDE.
                                           REPORT FROM STATE POLICE.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:32 PM CDT, 41 minutes before

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

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

0515 PM    LEXINGTON                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   FAYETTE                         TREES DOWN ALONG
                                           VERSAILLES ROAD FROM
                                           COUNTY DISPATCH.

0515 PM    VERSAILLES                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   WOODFORD                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN THROUGHOUT COUNTY

0520 PM    NICHOLASVILLE             KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   JESSAMINE                       TREEW AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN FROM COUNTY DISPATCH

Local storm report, Jun 22, 4:41 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

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

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

0520 PM    GEORGETOWN                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   SCOTT                           TREES DOWN AND WATER
                                           OVER ROADS. REPORT FROM
                                           COUNTY  DISPATCH

0525 PM    CYNTHIANA                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   HARRISON                        TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN.  REPORT FROM
                                           COUNTY DISPATCH.

0530 PM    PARIS                     KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/22/98   BOURBON                         WINDS OF 55 MPH. SMALL
                                           TREES DOWN. REPORT FROM
                                           LEXINGTON AMATEUR RADIO.

Local storm report, Jun 22, 5:10 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 22, 2:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	33 min
Jun 22, 3:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	35 min
Jun 22, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	28 min
Jun 22, 3:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	27 min
Jun 22, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson, Spencer	27 min
Jun 22, 3:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	27 min
Jun 22, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Washington	30 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	27 min
Jun 22, 4:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	27 min
Jun 22, 4:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas	30 min
Jun 22, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	31 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	31 min
Jun 22, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Lincoln	31 min
Jun 22, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark	116 min
Jun 22, 4:49 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Harrison	116 min
Jun 22, 5:03 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Larue	2 hr
Jun 22, 1:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	32 min
Jun 22, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	27 min
Jun 22, 2:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.