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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Louisville, KY

June 29, 1998Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 11:07 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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 29, 1998, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1998, 11:40 PM CDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Warren County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 29, 11:30 PM CDTThunderstorm Wind 52Bowling Green, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2226 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1998-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 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
2226 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
3.3

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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, 10:19 PM CDT, 48 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1119 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1100 PM    SHELBYVILLE               KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   SHELBY                          TREES AND POWER LINES
                                           DOWN.

1100 PM    SHEPHERDSVILLE            KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   BULLITT                         TREES DOWN IN THE
                                           NORTH...WEST AND
                                           EASTERN SECTIONS OF
                                           COUNTY.
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:20 PM CDT, 47 minutes before
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-300345-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1120 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 705 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA:

DUBOIS...ORANGE...WASHINGTON...SCOTT...JEFFERSON...PERRY...
CRAWFORD...HARRISON...FLOYD AND CLARK.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CROSSED THE OHIO RIVER INTO KENTUCKY.
MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA LATER
TONIGHT...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

STUREY
Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:38 PM CDT, 29 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1138 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1113 PM    TAYLORSVILLE              KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   SPENCER                         POWER LINES DOWN.

1120 PM    ALTON                     KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   ANDERSON                        TWO TREES DOWN.
Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:46 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1146 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1030 PM    LEWISPORT                 KY    .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   HANCOCK

1110 PM    HARTFORD                  KY    .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98   OHIO
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:46 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
KYZ023>025-028>034-038-300415-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1146 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 705 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES IN NORTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY:

HANCOCK...BRECKENRIDGE...MEADE...HARDIN...BULLITT...JEFFERSON...
OLDHAM...HENRY...CARROLL...GALLATIN...OWEN...SPENCER AND SHELBY.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PUSH DEEPER INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY
...THEREBY  ENDING  THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THOSE COUNTIES OF
KENTUCKY CLOSER TO THE OHIO RIVER. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED
OVERNIGHT...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE.

STUREY
Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:58 PM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1158 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998

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

1140 PM    GEORGETOWN                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   SCOTT                           TREES DOWN SEVERAL
                                           LOCATIONS.

1145 PM    VERSAILLES                KY    WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98   WOODFORD                        THREE TREES DOWN.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 29, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham, Trimble45 min
Jun 29, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson38 min
Jun 29, 9:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMeade38 min
Jun 29, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hancock35 min
Jun 29, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry44 min
Jun 29, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Hardin48 min
Jun 29, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKShelby, Spencer39 min
Jun 29, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGrayson, Ohio42 min
Jun 29, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLarue, Nelson49 min
Jun 29, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson, Franklin28 min
Jun 29, 10:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMercer, Scott, Woodford41 min
Jun 29, 10:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington35 min
Jun 29, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion44 min
Jun 29, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Fayette42 min
Jun 29, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison42 min
Jun 29, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJessamine40 min
Jun 29, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNicholas29 min
Jun 29, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Madison41 min
Jun 29, 10:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Garrard39 min
Jun 29, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler27 min
Jun 29, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson, Grayson35 min
Jun 29, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey, Lincoln30 min
Jun 29, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart34 min
Jun 29, 11:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren30 min
Jun 29, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange31 min
Jun 29, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington51 min
Jun 29, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKWashington43 min
Jun 29, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois37 min
Jun 29, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison48 min
Jun 29, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Scott44 min
Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPerry51 min
Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Floyd45 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.