Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT for Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 4:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rowan County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 2055 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 201 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLEX 082025 RRA SVRLEX KYC205-082115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 423 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ROWAN COUNTY AT 425PM EDT LOUISVILLE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ROWAN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AS IT MOVES EAST ACROSS THE COUNTY 45 TO 50 MILES WEST OF HUNTINGTON. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:18 PM EDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ090>092-0811815 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY NOON EDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR KENTUCKY... THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTHWARD ACROSS THE MIDWEST TODAY TO PARALLEL THE OHIO RIVER TONIGHT. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE. < MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL T.V. OR RADIO STATIONS THROUGH THE DAY FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THE WEATHER. AB
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 1:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
KYZ035>037-039>044-047>052-055>060-082300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 145 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR ALL EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 800 PM EDT... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 800 PM EDT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. A COLD FRONT PUSHING INTO THE BLUEGRASS WILL TRIGGER THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON...WITH THE WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE ALREADY IN PLACE. SOME STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND BROADCAST TELEVISION AND RADIO FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. PUMA
Local storm report, Jun 8, 2:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
245 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
245 PM CAMBELLSVILLE... KY PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
TAYLOR...43 WNW SOMERSET LASTING FOR 5 MINS...
REPORTED BY DES.
DATTILOLocal storm report, Jun 8, 2:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
245 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS.>..
245 PM CAMBELLSVILLE... KY PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAIL
TAYLOR...43 WNW SOMERSET LASTING FOR 5 MINS...
REPORTED BY DES.
DATTILONearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.