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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Louisville, KY

May 25, 1995Larue County, Nelson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1995, 6:04 PM EDT for Larue County, Nelson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 25, 1995, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Larue County, KY, Nelson County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 30 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1995-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 64 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-121 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 252205
SVRSDF
KYC123-179-252245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
604 PM EDT THU MAY 25 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...NORTHERN LARUE COUNTY...SOUTHERN NELSON COUNTY
 
AT 6PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF ELIZABETHTOWN. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH ARE HOWARDSTOWN AND ATHERTONVILLE.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  GO TO
THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR LOWEST LEVEL
IF POSSIBLE.  DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM
ALL DOWNED WIRES.
 
DARMOFAL/WILSON

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOldham, Trimble28 min
May 24, 8:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry37 min
May 24, 11:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Meade42 min
May 25, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLaurel17 min
May 25, 7:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWhitley20 min
May 25, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion, Taylor27 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.