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Tornado Warning 20, NWS Jackson, KY

May 18, 1995Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 9:54 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 9:54 PM EDT (01:54 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Pike County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 101 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KJKL 190154
TORJKL
KYC195-190230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
954 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION   ...
 
IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY
 
   ...NORTHEASTERN PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 950 PM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES EXTENDED
FROM 14 MILES NORTHWEST TO 18 MILES EAST OF PIKEVILLE...OR ACROSS
NORTHEAST PIKE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 40 MPH AND CITIES
IN THE PATH INCLUDE...GULNARE...MAJESTIC AND SOUTH WILLIAMSON.
 
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.
 
 
HUETL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:09 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Clay, Owsley	36 min
May 18, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee, Wolfe	32 min
May 18, 8:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Breathitt	38 min
May 18, 8:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson	51 min
May 18, 8:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry	44 min
May 18, 8:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knott	44 min
May 18, 8:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knott, Perry	40 min
May 18, 8:53 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Floyd	52 min
May 18, 9:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Floyd	42 min
May 18, 9:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	32 min
May 18, 9:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Breathitt	32 min
May 18, 9:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pike	38 min
May 18, 9:22 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Magoffin	38 min
May 18, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	39 min
May 18, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott	39 min
May 18, 10:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	33 min
May 18, 10:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Pike	33 min
May 18, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott, Pike	28 min
May 18, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox	28 min
May 18, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	28 min

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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.