Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 12:24 PM CDT for Allen County, Simpson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 16, 1995, 12:24 PM CDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1995, 1:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allen County, KY, Simpson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 161725 SVREVV KYC003-213-161800- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 1224 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ALLEN COUNTY...SIMPSON COUNTY AT 1220 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHWEST OF FRANKLIN KENTUCKY WHERE THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED. THE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH FRANKLIN BY 1240 PM AND SCOTSVILLE AROUND 1245. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS 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. 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, 3 hours 44 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
Special weather statement, May 16, 11:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
INZ085>089-161715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1118 AM EST TUE MAY 16 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FAR SOUTHWEST INDIANA HAS BEEN CANCELLED. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO EARLY AFTERNOON OVER SOUTHWEST INDIANA BUT SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED. SBH
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, 11:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Christian | 45 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, 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.