Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 3:57 AM CDT for McLean County, Muhlenberg County, Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 3:57 AM CDT (08:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 4:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 916 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 935 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 171 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 180858 SVREVV KYC149-183-177-180930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 357 AM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY ...MCLEAN COUNTY...OHIO COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...MUHLENBERG COUNTY AT 350 AM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 40 MILES SOUTH OF EVANSVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH THE TOWNS OF HARTFORD...AND GRAHAM BY 405 AM CDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS MOVE INDOORS 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 UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NHOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. NIEMEIER
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 18, 1:09 AM CDT, 2 hours 48 minutes before
INZ067>069-076>079-081>089-181200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 107 AM EST THU MAY 18 1995 A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN QUARTER OF INDIANA UNTIL 7 AM EST. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN QUARTER OF INDIANA UNTIL 7 AM EST. IN INDIANA THE WATCH INCLUDES THAT PORTION SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 15 MILES NORTHEAST OF MADISON. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE MADISON...EVANSVILLE...JASPER ...SALEM...SCOTTSBURG...AND NEW ALBANY. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENIN^G WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TMA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Hancock, Henderson | 4 hr |
| May 18, 2:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Union | 4 hr |
| May 18, 3:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hopkins, Webster | 37 min |
| May 18, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Christian, Logan, Muhlenberg, Todd | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Butler, Grayson, Ohio, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Allen, Barren, Monroe, Simpson | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hart | 3 hr |
| May 18, 4:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | McLean | 3 hr |
| May 18, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Allen, Barren, Monroe | 28 min |
| May 18, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Warren | 31 min |
| May 18, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Christian | 31 min |
| May 18, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd | 32 min |
| May 18, 4:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Barren, Warren | 11 min |
| May 18, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Logan, Todd | 40 min |
| May 18, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Edmonson, Hart | 38 min |
| May 18, 4:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Logan, Todd | 36 min |
| May 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Warren | 35 min |
| May 18, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Barren | 37 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.