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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Louisville, KY

June 29, 1998Shelby County, Spencer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 10:51 PM EDT for Shelby County, Spencer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 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 29, 1998, 10:51 PM EDT (02:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:54 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 29, 11:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Shelbyville, KY
Jun 29, 11:13 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 52	Taylorsville, 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 29, 7:30 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 397 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1435 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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 29, 9:59 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:11 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1011 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1000 PM    SALEM                     IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WASHINGTON                      TREES DOWN COUNTY-WIDE.

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:16 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1016 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1005 PM    AUSTIN                    IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   SCOTT                           TREES DOWN.

1010 PM    MADISON                   IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   JEFFERSON                       TREES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:30 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1030 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1004 PM    MILLTOWN                  IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   CRAWFORD                        TELEPHONE POLES SNAPPED
                                           OFF. POWER OUT IN
                                           MILLTOWN.

1020 PM    CORYDON                   IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   HARRISON                        TREES DOWN.

1027 PM    TELL CITY                 IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   PERRY                           POWER LINES AND TREES
                                           DOWN. POWER OUT IN TELL
                                           CITY.

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:33 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1033 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1020 PM    SELLERSBURG               IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   CLARK                           TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN COUNTY-WIDE.

1025 PM    GEORGETOWN                IN    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   FLOYD                           TREES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:45 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1045 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1026 PM    LEWISPORT                 KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   HANCOCK                         TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN.

1030 PM    MILTON                    KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   TRIMBLE                         TREES DOWN.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 10:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham, Trimble	45 min
Jun 29, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	38 min
Jun 29, 10:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	38 min
Jun 29, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hancock	35 min
Jun 29, 10:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	44 min
Jun 29, 10:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	48 min
Jun 29, 11:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	42 min
Jun 29, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	49 min
Jun 29, 11:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin	28 min
Jun 29, 11:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer, Scott, Woodford	41 min
Jun 29, 11:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	35 min
Jun 29, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	44 min
Jun 29, 11:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Fayette	42 min
Jun 29, 11:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	42 min
Jun 29, 11:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine	40 min
Jun 29, 11:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nicholas	29 min
Jun 29, 11:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	41 min
Jun 29, 11:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard	39 min
Jun 30, 12:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	27 min
Jun 30, 12:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson	35 min
Jun 30, 12:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	33 min
Jun 30, 12:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	30 min
Jun 30, 12:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	34 min
Jun 30, 12:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	30 min
Jun 29, 9:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	31 min
Jun 29, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	51 min
Jun 29, 9:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Washington	43 min
Jun 29, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	37 min
Jun 29, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	48 min
Jun 29, 9:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Scott	44 min
Jun 29, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	51 min
Jun 29, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Floyd	45 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.