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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 4, 1995Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 4, 1995, 8:45 PM CDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Ohio County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2346 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
6.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 050101 RRA
SVREVV
KYC183-050145-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
800 PM CDT TUE JUL 4 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  845 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...OHIO COUNTY
 
AT 759 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS DID PRODUCE DAMAGE AS
THEY MOVED THROUGH MUHLENBERG COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST
AT 30 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA...TAKE COVER NOW.
 
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.
 
MM
 
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 4, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDButler42 min
Jul 4, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDaviess46 min
Jul 4, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDGrayson26 min
Jul 4, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995Every 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.