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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Louisville, KY

June 21, 1995Trimble County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT for Trimble County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT
In force
17 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Trimble County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 291 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 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
291 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-148 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1337 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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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

Local storm report, Jun 21, 4:12 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 10:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEstill47 min
Jun 21, 12:26 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJessamine, Woodford64 min
Jun 21, 12:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJessamine, Woodford64 min
Jun 20, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford30 min
Jun 21, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOrange39 min
Jun 21, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson37 min
Jun 21, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson27 min

Nearby

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.