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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 14, 1995Barren County, Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 7:22 PM CDT for Barren County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barren County, KY, Warren County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 3331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 13.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 150022
SVREVV
KYC009-227-150115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
722 PM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  815 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...BARREN COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 719 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG AND SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER WARREN AND WESTERN BARREN COUNTIES. AT 716 PM
CDT...SPOTTERS STATED THTA GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL WAS OCCURRING IN BOWLING
GREEN IN ONE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE
EAST AT 25 MPH. GLASCOW IS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN
THE WARNED AREA...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 UNT"IL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
MM
 
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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

Local storm report, May 14, 4:32 PM CDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
330 AM EST SUN MAY 14 1995

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

1203 AM    NEW ROSS                  IN   *** 2 FATALITIES ***
5/14/95    MONTOGOMERY

???? AM    MARION CO                 IN   HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
                                          DESTROYED

CORRECTED TIME OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY TORNADO FATALITIES.  TIME BASED
ON SEMA REPORT.
MARION COUNTY DAMAGE TIME MORE LIKELY AROUND 1 AM EST.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hart	51 min
May 14, 8:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Warren	42 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.