Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 12, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 4:34 PM CDT for Barren County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 11 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 4:34 PM CDT (21:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 4:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 11 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Barren County, KY, Warren County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1151 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 674 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 4.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 182137 TOREVV KYC009-227-182145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 434 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 445 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BARREN COUNTY...WARREN COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN NORTHEAST WARREN COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. THE TORNADO WAS MOVING TOWARD GLASGOW. TAKE COVER. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON TBHE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. BLOCK
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, 3:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | McLean, Muhlenberg, Ohio | 33 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, 4:50 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.