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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 16, 1995Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1995, 1:19 PM CDT for Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 16, 1995, 1:19 PM CDT (18:19 UTC)
Expired
May 16, 1995, 1:45 PM CDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 161820
SVREVV
KYC171-161845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
119 PM CDT TUE MAY 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...MONROE COUNTY
 
AT 117 PM CDT RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES WEST
OF TOMPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY. IT WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL
MOVE THROUGH TOMPKINSVILLE ABOUT 130 PM CDT. TAKE COVER IN A REINFORCED
BUILDING IF STORMS MOVE TOWARD YOUR AREA.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 58
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HXAIL...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, 4 hours 39 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, 2 hours 2 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 11:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDButler, Muhlenberg, Ohio57 min
May 16, 11:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDChristian45 min
May 16, 11:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDLogan, Warren53 min
May 16, 11:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDTodd53 min
May 16, 12:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDAllen, Simpson36 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.