Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 5:25 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Bowling-Green, KY | An F2 tornado was intermittently on the ground over a two and one-half mile length. Several homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. |
| May 18, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Bowling Green, KY | An F2 tornado was intermittently on the ground over a one and one-half mile length. Numerous homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed on the north side of Bowling Green. |
| May 18, 5:47 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Bowling-Green, KY | An F2 tornado was intermittently on the ground over a five mile length. Several homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 182225 TOREVV KYC227-182300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 525 PM CDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...WARREN COUNTY A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR WOODBURN KENTUCKY IN WARREN COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH TOWARD ALVATON. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 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 THE 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, 4:34 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, 5:53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.