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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Louisville, KY

June 30, 1998Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT for Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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 30, 1998, 12:15 AM EDT (04:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 1998, 12:45 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Casey County, KY, Lincoln County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:15 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.

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
Jun 29, 10:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:20 PM EDT, 55 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, 11:38 PM EDT, 37 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, 11:46 PM EDT, 29 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, 11:46 PM EDT, 29 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, 11:58 PM EDT, 17 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.

Local storm report, Jun 30, 12:08 AM EDT, 7 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 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, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby, Spencer	39 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, 12:26 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.