Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 297, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 10:18 PM EST for Switzerland County, Indiana; Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 4, 1995, 10:18 PM EST (03:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 4, 1995, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Switzerland County, IN, Carroll County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 1975 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 4, 2:07 PM EST, 8 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 2:07 PM EST, 8 hours 11 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 305 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995 LINE OF RW/TRW DEV FM IND-SDF WITH THE STRONGER TSTMS IN KY WHERE SUN HAS BEEN ABLE TO INC INSTABILITY. LATEST ADAP CHARTS SHOWS LI`S OF -4 TO -6...WK SFC MOISTURE CONV OVER CWA WITH BEST CONV IN W IN AND E IL...ALONG WITH NO CAP. LOW CLDS STILL HANGG TUF ACROSS S AND C IN BUT PLENTY OF HOLES OVER SW OH AND N KY WITH TEMPS 80-85. EXPECT LINE OF STORMS INTO CWA BY LT AFT...ALSO THERE ARE OTHER STORMS OVER N KY HEADG INTO SC OH WHICH WERE PRODUCG VERY HEAVY RAIN. 40-50 PCT POPS O.K. FOR TNGT SO FIREWORK'S DISPLAYS WL BE TOUCH N GO. FOR WED AND THU A DIFFERENT STORY AS MORE STORMS ARE EXPECTED WITH GREATER SEVERITY. STRONG LOW PRESSURE LIFTS INTO UPPER MIDWEST... INCS THE FLOW AT ALL LVLS OVER CWA. AREAS OF PVA MOVE THROUGH ENHANCG UVV. THE UNCERTAINTY IS HOW MUCH SS WL DEV TO INC INSTABILITY SINCE MOISTURE ABUNDANT WITH DWPTS ALREADY IN THE LOW 70S! LIKELY CAT FOR POPS LOOK GOOD FOR WED BUT BELIEVE FWC MOS POPS SHOULD BE RAISED FOR THU INTO AT LEAST 50-60 PCT RANGE. HIGHER FAN MOS POPS MAY BE WAY TO GO FOR THU. CVG 71/85/71/86 DAY 70/84/71/85 CMH 70/86/71/86 SANDLER
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.