Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1995, 3:29 PM CDT for Logan County, Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1995, 3:29 PM CDT (20:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1995, 4:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1464 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 312030 RRA SVREVV KYC141-177-312130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 329 PM CDT MON JUL 31 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY...MUHLENBERG COUNTY AT 327 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LEWISBURG KENTUCKY...20 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHWEST AT 12 MPH AND WILL REACH GREENVILLE AROUND 4 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE STORM..TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 10:29 AM CDT, 5 hours before
INZ002>089-312100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1029 AM EST MON JUL 31 1995 ...HOT WEATHER WILL CONTINUE ACROSS INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND ACROSS SOUTHERN INDIANA TUESDAY... TEMPERATURES WILL RISE INTO THE MIDDLE 90S THIS AFTERNOON. THE TEMPERATURE COMBINED WITH THE RELATIVE HUMIDITY WILL CREATE HEAT INDICES BETWEEN 95 AND 105 DURING THE LATE MORNING AND AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES WILL REACH THE LOWER TO MIDDLE 90S OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA TUESDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL AGAIN BE BETWEEN 95 AND 105. NORTH INDIANA WILL NOT BE AS HOT TUESDAY. PROLONGED EXPOSURE TO THE HEAT...OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN THE HEAT...MAY CAUSE HEAT RELATED HEALTH PROBLEMS. DECREASE THE HEAT STRESS ON YOUR BODY BY DRINKING PLENTY OF WATER. TRY TO GET TO AREAS OF SHADE OR AN AIR CONDITIONED AREA FREQUENTLY. DO NOT LEAVE CHILDREN OR ANIMALS UNATTENDED IN VEHICLES. TMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Hancock | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hart | 46 min |
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.