Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 1999, 5:24 PM CDT for Adair County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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
- Aug 24, 1999, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 24, 1999, 5:55 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 5:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Breeding, KY | Large limbs blocked a road |
| Aug 24, 5:40 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Edmonton, KY | Power lines down near Edmonton |
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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 242225 RRA SVRSDF KYC001-169-242255- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 624 PM EDT (524 PM CDT) TUE AUG 24 1999 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY EASTERN METCALFE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 555 PM CDT (655 PM EDT) * AT 523 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF EDMONTON...OR 50 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEED AT 535 PM CDT COLUMBIA AT 545 CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKEFLY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! .END/DK/CS
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 24, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 24, 2:00 PM CDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 300 PM EDT TUE AUG 24 1999 ...FCST PRBLM TDA CENTERS ARND CHC OF PRECIP ASSCTD WITH CDFNT MOVG INTO CNTRL KENTUCKY ERLY THIS AFTN... CLDS UPR LO SPINNG ACRS CNTRL IL AT ERLY AFTN WITH AREA OF SHWRS/TSTMS UNDR COLD CORE UPR LO XTNDG S INTO ERN IN. SCND AREA OF CONV ACRS MS/AL IN AREA OF HIER DWPTS. KY CAUGHT IN BTWN AS COLD FRONT VCNTY SDF AT 17Z WNDS HAV JUST SHFTD TO SW AND DWPTS WHICH REACHED A MAX OF 70 HAV DROPPED TO 66 DEG. LAPS DATA AT 16Z ALRDY INDCTS BST INSTBLTY FROM SDF E. MDLS SHW BST MOIST INTO E KY BY 00Z AS UPR LO DRIFTS SLOLY E DURING NXT 48 HRS. CRNT DATA SEEMS TO FAVOR NGM WHICH TAKES INSTBLTY MAX OVR SCNTRL KY AND SPLITS IT BY 00Z WITH ONE MAX...ASSCTD WITH UPR LO...OVR OH AND SCND MAX OVR AL. NGM ALSO FASTED TO SHUT OFF PRECIP WITH FRHT65 INDCTG NO PRECIP AFTR 00Z. WILL CONCENTRATE BST CHC PRECIP OVR ECNTRL KY BUT EVEN THERE WILL HOLD IN LKLY CAT UNLESS SOME DVLPMNT NOTED BY FCST ISSUANCE. WILL REDUCE POPS INTO CHC/SCT RANGE W. ALTHO MDLS CONT TO SHW UPR LO MOVG VRY SLOLY E THRU 48 HRS KEEPG KY IN BROAD CYCNLC FLO MOIST LACKG. FEEL ANY ADDTNL PRECIP AFTR FROPA WILL BE ON WED AFTN AS COLD CORE UPR LO MOVS ACRS IN. .SDF...NONE. RNK
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 24, 4:49 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
549 PM EDT TUE AUG 24 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM LEXINGTON KY DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE
08/24/99 FAYETTE SOUTHERN PART OF THE
LEXINGTON METROPOLIAN
AREA. REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
0535 PM CLEMENTVILLE KY TREES DOWN IN WESTERN
08/24/99 CASEY CASEY COUNTY ON HIGHWAY
70 NEAR CLEMENTVILLE.
REPORTED BY CASEY COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
CROWLocal storm report, Aug 24, 4:49 PM CDT, 35 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
549 PM EDT TUE AUG 24 1999
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0515 PM LEXINGTON KY DIME SIZE HAIL IN THE
08/24/99 FAYETTE SOUTHERN PART OF THE
LEXINGTON METROPOLIAN
AREA. REPORTED BY
SKYWARN SPOTTER.
0535 PM CLEMENTVILLE KY TREES DOWN IN WESTERN
08/24/99 CASEY CASEY COUNTY ON HIGHWAY
70 NEAR CLEMENTVILLE.
REPORTED BY CASEY COUNTY
SHERIFFS OFFICE.
CROWThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Nicholas | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 4:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 32 min |
| Aug 24, 4:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 30 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.