Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 11:15 AM CDT for Christian County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 11:15 AM CDT (16:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 12:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Christian County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 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
- 1649 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 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 161619 COR SVREVV KYC047-161700- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING...CORRECTION 2ND SENTENCE DIRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 1115 AM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL NOON CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...CHRISTIAN COUNTY AT 1112 AM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST MOVING INTO CHRISTIAN COUNTY...15 MILES NORTHWEST OF HOPKINSVILLE. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL REACH THE HOPKINSVILLE AREA AROUND 1130 AM CDT. TAKE COVER IN A REIFORCED BUILDING IF STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. 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. BLOCK
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, May 16, 8:40 AM CDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
INZ085>089-161900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 841 AM EST TUE MAY 16 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 200 PM EST/CDT... THE WATCH INCLUDES POSEY SPENCER VANDERBURGH WARRICK AND PERRY COUNTIES...AND THE COMMUNITIES OF OF EVANSVILLE NEW HARMONY BOONVILLE ROCKPORT AND TELL CITY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE STORMS CONTAIN DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. PEOPLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST ILLINOxIS WILL MOVE ACROSS EXTREME SOUTHWEST INDIANA THIS MORNING. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Butler, Muhlenberg, Ohio | 57 min |
| May 16, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Logan, Warren | 53 min |
| May 16, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Todd | 53 min |
| May 16, 12:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Allen, Simpson | 36 min |
| May 16, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Monroe | 26 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.