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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 212, NWS Louisville, KY

June 23, 1998Breckinridge County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 5:32 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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 23, 1998, 5:32 PM CDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired
Jun 23, 1998, 6:00 PM CDT
In force
28 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Breckinridge County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2558 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1998-06-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2558 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
4.7

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The text

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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 23, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
944 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1998

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

0615 PM    LEWISPORT                 KY    .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/98   HANCOCK                         PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL
                                           REPORTED BY CO-OP
                                           OBSERVER NEAR LEWISPORT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock35 min
Jun 23, 12:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Meade35 min
Jun 23, 1:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHancock2 hr
Jun 23, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock23 min
Jun 22, 11:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois39 min
Jun 22, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington33 min
Jun 23, 12:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford35 min
Jun 23, 12:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson34 min

Nearby

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