Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 18, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT for Clay County, Owsley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 1995, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KY, Owsley County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 190009 TORJKL KYC051-189-190045- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 809 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION S... IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY ...NORTHERN CLAY COUNTY...OWSLEY COUNTY AT 805 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF JACKSON OR NEAR ANNVILLE IN SOUTH JACKSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NEAR 35 MPH AND WILL REACH NORTHERN CLAY AND OWSLEY COUNTIES BETWEEN 815 AND 845 PM. CITIES IN THE PATH ARE... BURNING SPRINGS...BOONEVILLE... AND SEXTONS CREEK. 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. HUETTL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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, 9:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pike | 36 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.