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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Indianapolis, IN

May 17, 1995Hopkins County, McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1995, 4:22 PM CDT for Hopkins County, McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 17, 1995, 4:22 PM CDT (21:22 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 1995, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 167 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: 1244 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 796 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 264 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.0
Supercell composite: 8.4

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 172124
SVREVV
KYC107-149-233-172215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
422 PM CDT WED MAY 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...NORTHERN HOPKINS COUNTY...MCLEAN COUNTY...WEBSTER COUNTY
 
AT 420 PM CDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER CENTRAL WEBSTER
COUNTY NEAR DIXON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND
WILL REACH NEBO BY 430 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM 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.
 
LAMBERTY
 
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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

Special weather statement, May 17, 10:46 AM CDT, 5 hours 36 minutes before

INZ006>011-013-015-017>089-172100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1045 AM EST WED MAY 17 1995

....A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS MOST OF INDIANA THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...

THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MOST OF INDIANA THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...WITH THE GREATEST RISK OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM TERRE HAUTE
TO CINCINATTI.

MES

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 4:42 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Henderson	3 hr
May 17, 5:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Daviess	3 hr
May 17, 5:32 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Hancock	3 hr
May 17, 4:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Daviess, Hancock, Ohio	38 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.