Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 1:14 AM CDT for Christian County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 27, 1995, 1:14 AM CDT (06:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 27, 1995, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Christian County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1849 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 434 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 270616 RRA SVREVV KYC047-270645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 114 AM CDT FRI OCT 27 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...NORTHERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY AT 110 AM CDT DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRACY IN EXTREME NORTHEAST TRIG COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL REACH NORTHERN CHRISTIAN COUNTY BY 120 AM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAMBERTY
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, Oct 26, 9:53 PM CDT, 3 hours 21 minutes before
INZ002>089-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 955 PM EST THU OCT 26 1995 ...VERY STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER INDIANA... WINDS WILL BE BREEZY OVERNIGHT THEN WILL BECOME VERY WINDY TOMORROW. SOUTH WINDS WILL BE 15 TO 25 MPH OVERNIGHT. SOME HIGHER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH INDIANA LATE TONIGHT IN THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS WILL BECOME WEST IN THE MORNING AND WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH. THERE MAY BE SOME GUSTS TO 40 TO 45 MPH...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTH INDIANA. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WIND GUSTS WILL DECREASE FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT WIND SPEEDS WILL LIKELY REMAIN AT 20 TO 30 MPH OVER THE NORTH AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE. IN THE SOUTH THE WINDS WILL DECREASE TO 10 TO 20 MPH. STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING MORE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY TALL VEHICLES. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 9:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
INZ002>089-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 955 PM EST THU OCT 26 1995 ...VERY STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER INDIANA... WINDS WILL BE BREEZY OVERNIGHT THEN WILL BECOME VERY WINDY TOMORROW. SOUTH WINDS WILL BE 15 TO 25 MPH OVERNIGHT. SOME HIGHER GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE OVER CENTRAL AND SOUTH INDIANA LATE TONIGHT IN THUNDERSTORMS. WINDS WILL BECOME WEST IN THE MORNING AND WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 35 MPH. THERE MAY BE SOME GUSTS TO 40 TO 45 MPH...ESPECIALLY OVER NORTH INDIANA. STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. WIND GUSTS WILL DECREASE FRIDAY NIGHT...BUT WIND SPEEDS WILL LIKELY REMAIN AT 20 TO 30 MPH OVER THE NORTH AND CENTRAL PARTS OF THE STATE. IN THE SOUTH THE WINDS WILL DECREASE TO 10 TO 20 MPH. STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE DRIVING MORE DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY TALL VEHICLES. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 10:21 PM CDT, 2 hours 53 minutes before
INZ029-030-035>037-039-045>048-054>056-270420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1022 PM EST THU OCT 26 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... THE STORM WAS 15 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE AT 1010 PM AND WAS MOVING EAST. IT SHOULD MOVE NEAR THE NORTH SIDE OF CRAWFORDSVILLE AROUND 1030 PM. STATE POLICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THIS STORM. THE STORM ALSO HAD DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THUND`ERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM WEST OF LAFAYETTE TO THE WEST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS TO NEAR SHELBYVILLE. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD LAFAYETTE...FRANKFORT AND DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS. DS
Special weather statement, Oct 26, 10:22 PM CDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
INZ029-030-035>037-039-045>048-054>056-270420- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1022 PM EST THU OCT 26 1995 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WEST CENTRAL INDIANA... THE STORM WAS 15 MILES WEST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE AT 1010 PM AND WAS MOVING EAST. IT SHOULD MOVE NEAR THE NORTH SIDE OF CRAWFORDSVILLE AROUND 1030 PM. STATE POLICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN THIS STORM. THE STORM ALSO HAD DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM WEST OF LAFAYETTE TO THE WEST SIDE OF INDIANAPOLIS TO NEAR SHELBYVILLE. THEY WERE MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD LAFAYETTE...FRANKFORT AND DOWNTOWN INDIANAPOLIS. DS
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.