Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1994, 4:27 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Oldham County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1994, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1994, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, KY, Oldham County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 838 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, May 14, 2:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
KYZ024-028>030-033>034-038-045-046-053-INZ090>092-142100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 255 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING NORTH OF LOUISVILLE... AT 245 PM EDT AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS LOCATED FROM LOUSIVILLE NORTH THROUGH SALEM. SOME OF THESE STORMS WERE STRONG AND CONTAINED VERY HEAVY RAIN. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 40 MPH AND WILL PUSH ACROSS THE NORTHERN PARTS OF LOUISVILLE AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...INCLUDING THE CITIES OF CHARLESTOWN...SCOTTSBURG AND MADISON BY 345 PM EDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS...MOVE TO SAFE INDOOR SHELTER. DO NOT USE APPLIANCES OR THE TELEPHONE. SCHOLZ
Special weather statement, May 14, 4:07 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
KYZ024-028>030-033>034-038-045-046-053-INZ090>092-142100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 355 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD LOUISVILLE WHILE ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS MOVES AWAY... AT 345 PM EDT AN EXTENSIVE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF SOUTHWEST KNETUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS STRETCHED SOUTHEAST FROM EVANSVILLE INDIANA TO JUST WEST OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND BRUSHED THE NORTHERN PART OF KENTUCKY HAD MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE STORMS HAD MOVED TO THE FAR EAST PORTION OF SCOTT COUNTY INDIANA BY 350. IF YOU DETECT APPROACHING STORMS...MOVE TO SAFE INDOOR SHLETER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES OR WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS. DATTILO
Special weather statement, May 14, 4:12 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
KYZ024-028>030-033>034-038-045-046-053-INZ090>092-142100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 355 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD LOUISVILLE WHILE ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS MOVES AWAY... AT 345 PM EDT AN EXTENSIVE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST OUT OF SOUTHWEST KENTUCKY. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE STORMS STRETCHED SOUTHEAST FROM EVANSVILLE INDIANA TO JUST WEST OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH. THE AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND BRUSHED THE NORTHERN PART OF KENTUCKY HAD MOVED TO THE NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. THE TRAILING EDGE OF THE STORMS HAD MOVED TO THE FAR EAST PORTION OF SCOTT COUNTY INDIANA BY 350. IF YOU DETECT APPROACHING STORMS...MOVE TO SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES OR WARNINGS ON THESE STORMS. DATTILO ...CORRECTED FOR SPELLING...
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 40 min |
| May 14, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 52 min |
| May 14, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 40 min |
| May 14, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 50 min |
| May 14, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.