Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1995, 3:45 PM CST for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 1995, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1995, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Daviess County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 232 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 202146 RRA SVREVV KYC059-107-149-202230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 345 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY ...DAVIESS COUNTY...HOPKINS COUNTY...MCLEAN COUNTY AT 343 CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF MADISONVILLE KENTUCKY...MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF OWENSBORO...ALSO MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WIND...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS..IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...YOU SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. 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, Mar 20, 11:15 AM CST, 4 hours 30 minutes before
INZ021>023-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-070>072-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1215 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 ...HIGH WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON... SHORTLY BEFORE NOON EST...THE INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 48 MPH WHEN SHOWERS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. AT NOON EST...RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HIGH WINDS AS THESE SHOWERS MOVE THROUGH. REPORT ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. JAS
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 11:22 AM CST, 4 hours 23 minutes before
INZ021>023-028>031-035>049-051>057-060>065-070>072-201930- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1215 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 ...HIGH WINDS ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON... SHORTLY BEFORE NOON EST...THE INDIANAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT REPORTED A WIND GUST TO 48 MPH WHEN SHOWERS MOVED THROUGH THE AREA. AT NOON EST...RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA. THESE SHOWERS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND MAY PRODUCE BRIEF WIND GUSTS TO NEAR 50 MPH THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON. PERSONS ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR BRIEF HIGH WINDS AS THESE SHOWERS MOVE THROUGH. REPORT ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SER(VICE. JAS
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 1:13 PM CST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
INZ022-023-030-031-037>042-045>049-053>057-061>065-070>072-202015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 213 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 AT 210 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM PERU THROUGH LEBANON TO BLOOMFIELD...WHICH IS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXTENDED FROM SHELBYVILLE TO SEYMOUR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH... AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE THROUGH. STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH TIPTON...INDIANAPOLIS...AND BLOOMINGTON BEFORE 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ELSON
Special weather statement, Mar 20, 1:14 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
INZ022-023-030-031-037>042-045>049-053>057-061>065-070>072-202015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 213 PM EST MON MAR 20 1995 AT 210 PM EST RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM PERU THROUGH LEBANON TO BLOOMFIELD...WHICH IS 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BLOOMINGTON. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXTENDED FROM SHELBYVILLE TO SEYMOUR. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAnST AT 50 MPH. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH... AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE THROUGH. STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH TIPTON...INDIANAPOLIS...AND BLOOMINGTON BEFORE 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON. ELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 20, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hopkins, McLean | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Muhlenberg, Ohio | 52 min |
| Mar 20, 5:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Edmonson, Hart | 51 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.