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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 242, NWS Indianapolis, IN

July 28, 1995Christian County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 8:33 AM CDT for Christian County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 8:33 AM CDT (13:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 9:07 AM CDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Christian County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 595 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 119 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
595 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
911 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 281333 RRA
SVREVV
KYC047-281430-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
833 AM CDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...CHRISTIAN COUNTY
 
AT 830 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 50
MILES SOUTH OF EVANSVILLE..MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO NORTHERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY AND
WILL MOVE OVER MANNINGTON AND CROFTON AND REACH HOPKINSVILLE BY 9 AM
CDT.
 
TAKE COVER IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUDNERSTORM.
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
ZIMMER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 7:45 AM CDTTornado WarningINDUnion, Webster45 min
Jul 28, 8:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHopkins52 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.