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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 102, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 6, 1995Spencer County, Indiana; Daviess County, Hancock County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 6, 1995, 4:27 PM CDT for Spencer County, Indiana; Daviess County, Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 6, 1995, 4:27 PM CDT (21:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1995, 5:00 PM CDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Spencer County, IN, Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 1269 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -34 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 
WUUS1 KEVV 062127 RRA
SVREVV
INC147-KYC059-091-219-062200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
427 PM CDT TUE JUN 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA
 
   ...SPENCER COUNTY
 
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...DAVIESS COUNTY...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...TODD COUNTY
 
AT 425 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 10 MILES WEST
OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OWENSBORO. THREE QUARTER
INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED AT PANTHER KENTUCKY JUST SOUTH OF OWENSBORO. ALL
THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED IN HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY. THE
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF
THESE STORMS SHOULD BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
BLOCK
 
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 5:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Perry	44 min
Jun 6, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	44 min
Jun 6, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Christian	37 min
Jun 6, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Todd	33 min
Jun 6, 5:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Logan, Warren	41 min
Jun 6, 6:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Edmonson, Grayson, Warren	45 min
Jun 6, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Barren, Hart	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.