Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT for Bullitt County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bullitt County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 220102 RRA SVRSDF KYC029-220145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 900 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BULLITT COUNTY AT 900 PM EDT...DOPPER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE ALONG THE BULLITT COUNTY...NELSON COUNTY LINE... NEAR DEATSVILLE. THE SEVERE STORM WAS MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR THE TOWNS OF CLERMONT AND BELMONT BETWEEN 915 PM AND 930 PM EDT. LARGE HAIL..DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAINS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 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. STUREY
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, 6:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
655 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
645 PM JEFFERSONVILLE IN PEA SIZE HAIL
CLARK REPORT FROM SPOTTER
KIRKPATRICKLocal storm report, Jun 21, 6:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
655 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
645 PM JEFFERSONVILLE IN PEA SIZE HAIL
CLARK REPORT FROM SPOTTER
KIRKPATRICKLocal storm report, Jun 21, 7:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
724 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
720 PM WADDY KY PEA SIZE HAIL
SHELBY REPORT FROM HAM OPERATOR
NORTHINGTONLocal storm report, Jun 21, 7:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
740 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
TIME (EDT) ....CITY LOCATION... STATE
...COUNTY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
645 PM MILLVILLE KY MARBLE SIZE HAIL.
WOODFORD CO. TREE LIMBS DOWN PARTIALLY
BLOCKING BIG SINK PIKE...
OLD FRANKFORT PIKE AND
WILLIAM LANE. REPORTED BY
WOODFORD COUNTY DISPATCH.
710 PM FRANKLIN CO. KY TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY FRANKLIN
COUNTY DISPATCH.
PUMA...CORRECTED FOR SPELLINGLocal storm report, Jun 21, 7:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
740 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
TIME (EDT) ....CITY LOCATION... STATE
...COUNTY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
645 PM MILVILLE KY MARBLE SIZE HAIL.
WOODFORD CO. TREE LIMBS DOWN PARTIALLY
BLOCKING BIG SINK PIKE...
OLD FRANKFORT PIKE AND
WILLIAM LANE. REPORTED BY
WOODFORD COUNTY DISPATCH.
710 PM FRANKLIN CO. TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY FRANKLIN
COUNTY DISPATCH.
PUMALocal storm report, Jun 21, 7:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
740 PM EDT WED JUN 21 1995
TIME (EDT) ....CITY LOCATION... STATE
...COUNTY LOCATION... ...EVENT/REMARKS...
645 PM MILLVILLE KY MARBLE SIZE HAIL.
WOODFORD CO. TREE LIMBS DOWN PARTIALLY
BLOCKING BIG SINK PIKE...
OLD FRANKFORT PIKE AND
WILLIAM LANE. REPORTED BY
WOODFORD COUNTY DISPATCH.
710 PM FRANKLIN CO. KY TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORTED BY FRANKLIN
COUNTY DISPATCH.
PUMA...CORRECTED FOR SPELLINGNearby
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.