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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Louisville, KY

June 20, 1995Crawford County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 7:30 PM EST for Crawford County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 7:30 PM EST (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 8:00 PM EST
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Crawford County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 241 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 864 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
864 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
947 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

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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 20, 6:25 PM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ090>092-210500-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
725 PM EDT TUE JUN 20 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR A LARGE PORTION OF EAST CENTRAL
KENTUCKY UNTIL 1 AM...

AT 720 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LARGE AREA OF
MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM
CINCINNATI OHIO TO BLOOMINGTON INDIANA TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. THE
ENTIRE AREA WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHWEST AT AROUND 20 MPH. PRESENTLY
THERE IS NO SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE BLUEGRASS.

IF STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THEY PASS.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHUR
INFORMATION.

MOORE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 9:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEstill47 min
Jun 20, 11:26 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKJessamine, Woodford64 min
Jun 20, 11:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJessamine, Woodford64 min
Jun 21, 3:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble17 min
Jun 21, 3:06 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOrange39 min
Jun 21, 3:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson37 min
Jun 21, 4:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.