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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Wilmington, OH

March 23, 1995Lewis County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 1995, 1:43 AM EST for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 23, 1995, 1:43 AM EST (06:43 UTC)
Expired: Mar 23, 1995, 2:30 AM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Wilmington, OH
Area: Whole counties

County Lewis County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 3107 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 250 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KILN 230644 RRA
SVRILN
KYC135-230730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
143 AM EST THU MAR 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH KENTUCKY
 
   ...LEWIS COUNTY
 
AT 140 AM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY DOPPLER RADAR ALONG THE
MASON LEWIS COUNTY LINE JUST EAST OF LEWISBURG OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
MAYSVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. LAW ENFORCEMENT IN
MAYSVILLE REPORTED GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM AT 135 AM. PEOPLE
IN THE TOWNS OF VANCEBURG...GLEN SPRINGS...AND ST. PAUL ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD MOVE TO SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.
 
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SINCE THEY CAN EASILY SHATTER IN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR `APPLIANCES
UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
 
 
 
&
PARKER

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 Mar 22, 8:45 PM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 22, 8:45 PM EST, 4 hours 58 minutes before

FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
845 PM EST WED MAR 22 1995

CLDS ARE INCG FM THE W AND SW ATTM. DOPPLER DOES NOT INDICATE PRECIP
IN ILN CWA ATTM BUT IS APCHG SE IND AND N KY. CURRENT FCSTS FOR CWA
LK GD.

PARKER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 23, 12:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Pendleton	40 min
Mar 23, 1:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Bracken	41 min
Mar 23, 1:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILN	Mason, Robertson	25 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.