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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 247, NWS Louisville, KY

June 29, 1998Barren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT for Barren 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 29, 1998, 11:45 PM CDT (04:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1998, 12:15 AM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Barren County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 29, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 110 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, 10:46 PM CDT, 59 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, 59 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, 47 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 29, 11:08 PM CDT, 37 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 29, 11:21 PM CDT, 24 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 29, 11:34 PM CDT, 11 minutes before
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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, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWarren33 min
Jun 29, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey, Lincoln30 min
Jun 29, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart34 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.