Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 5:24 PM CDT for Henderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 5:24 PM CDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henderson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 2622 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 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 182225 RRA SVREVV KYC101-182300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 524 PM CDT FRI AUG 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY ...WESTERN HENDERSON COUNTY AT 524 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH SOUTHWEST OF EVANSVILLE AND NEAR CORYDON KENTUCKY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AT 10 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE ROBARDS KENTUCKY AREA BEFORE 6 PM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 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 DRIV&E 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, Aug 18, 1:54 PM CDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
INZ037-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 154 PM EST FRI AUG 18 1995 AN UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED OVER CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WERE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA...BUT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES LITTLE OR NO CIRCULATION IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THEREFORE...THESE STORMS ARE UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF THERE ARE ANY MORE FUNNELS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THEY WILL LIKELY BE VERY SHORT LIVED AND REMAIN ALOFT. HOWEVER...IF YOU THINK YOU SPOT A FUNNEL SEEK COVER IMMEDIATELY. WHEN TRYING TO SPOT A FUNNEL...REMEMBER TO LOOK FOR ROTATION IN THE SUSPICIOUS CLOUD. IF THE CLOUD IS NOT ROTATING...IT PROBABLY IS NOT A FUNNEL. SGE
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 1:58 PM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
INZ037-182000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 154 PM EST FRI AUG 18 1995 AN UNCONFIRMED FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED OVER CENTRAL BOONE COUNTY EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WERE DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE AREA...BUT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES LITTLE OR NO CIRCULATION IN THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THEREFORE...THESE STORMS ARE UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE TORNADOES. IF THERE ARE ANY MORE FUNNELS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON THEY WILL LIKELY BE VERY SHORT LIVED AND REMAIN ALOFT. HOWEVER...IF YOU THINK YOU SPOT A FUNNEL SEEK COVER IMMEDIATELY. WHEN TRYING TO SPOT A FUNNEL...REMEMBER TO LOOK FOR ROTATION IN THE SUSPICIOUS CLOUD. IF THE CLOUD IS NOT ROTATING...IT PROBABLY IS NOT 8A FUNNEL. SGE
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.