Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 20, 1995, 5:54 PM CST for Edmonson County, Hart County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 20, 1995, 5:54 PM CST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 20, 1995, 6:45 PM CST
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edmonson County, KY, Hart County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 202355 RRA SVREVV KYC061-099-210045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 554 PM CST MON MAR 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM CST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...EDMONSON COUNTY...HART COUNTY AT 552 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 15 TO 25 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS 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. SLEIGHTER
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, 1:13 PM CST, 4 hours 41 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, 4 hours 40 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, 3:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess | 45 min |
| Mar 20, 4:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Muhlenberg, Ohio | 52 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.