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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1999, 3:09 PM EDT for Marion County, Washington County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 19, 1999, 3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1999, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Marion County, KY, Washington County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 209 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 272 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -217 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1698 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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.
NWS Louisville, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 19, 4:25 AM EDT, 10 hours 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 4:25 AM EDT, 10 hours 44 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 19, 11:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1148 AM EDT THU AUG 19 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 AM SALEM IN .75 INCH HAIL
08/19/99 WASHINGTON DIME TO QUARTER SIZE
HAIL JUST SOUTH OF SALEM.Local storm report, Aug 19, 11:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1148 AM EDT THU AUG 19 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1130 AM SALEM IN .75 INCH HAIL
08/19/99 WASHINGTON DIME TO QUARTER SIZE
HAIL JUST SOUTH OF SALEM.Local storm report, Aug 19, 12:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1214 PM EDT THU AUG 19 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1155 AM PLEASURE RIDGE PARK KY WIND DAMAGE
08/19/99 JEFFERSON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
1157 AM LOUISVILLE ARPT KY 56 MPH TSTM GUST
08/19/99 JEFFERSON MEASURED WIND GUST AT
LOUISVILLE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.Local storm report, Aug 19, 12:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1214 PM EDT THU AUG 19 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1155 AM PLEASURE RIDGE PARK KY WIND DAMAGE
08/19/99 JEFFERSON TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
1157 AM LOUISVILLE ARPT KY 56 MPH TSTM GUST
08/19/99 JEFFERSON MEASURED WIND GUST AT
LOUISVILLE
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 11:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 11:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 17 min |
| Aug 19, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 4:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 29 min |
| Aug 19, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 16 min |
| Aug 19, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 17 min |
| Aug 19, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999
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.