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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 162, NWS Louisville, KY

July 4, 1995Crittenden County, Kentucky; Hardin County, Illinois

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 4, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Kentucky; Hardin County, Illinois. It was in force for 32 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 1995, 7:28 PM CDT (00:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Hardin County, IL, Crittenden County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 202 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 6.2

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jul 4, 3:25 PM CDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 4, 4:48 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
547 PM EDT (447 PM CDT) TUE JUL 4 1995

STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL
INDIANA THIS EVENING.

THERE ARE NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY STRONG GUSTS OF WIND THAT MAY BLOW
TREE LIMBS DOWN.  THERE COULD BE SOME SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30
MPH.

BE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTS OF WIND AND SMALL HAIL. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM
MOVES OVER YOU GO INSIDE A REINFORCED BUILDING. REMEMBER...LIGHTNING
CAN KILL YOU.

WHW

Local storm report, Jul 4, 6:54 PM CDT, 34 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
754 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

500-514        FINCHVILLE          KY      LARGE TREES DOWN. TWO
PM EDT         SHELBY COUNTY               HOUSES DAMAGED BY TREES.
7/4/95                                     BARN LOST PART OF A ROOF.
                                           ALL DAMAGE OCCURED FROM
                                           1 MILE NORTH OF FINCHVILLE
                                           TO LOGAN STATE ROAD. .52
                                           INCHES OF RAIN FELL.
                                           REPORTED BY SHELBY COUNTY
                                           DES AND HAM RADIO SPOTTER.
WHW

Local storm report, Jul 4, 7:02 PM CDT, 26 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
754 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

500-514        FINCHVILLE          KY      LARGE TREES DOWN. TWO
PM EDT         SHELBY COUNTY               HOUSES DAMAGED BY TREES.
7/4/95                                     BARN LOST PART OF A ROOF.
                                           ALL DAMAGE OCCURED FROM
                                           1 MILE NORTH OF FINCHVILLE
                                           TO LOGAN STATE ROAD. .52
                                           INCHES OF RAIN FELL.
                                           REPORTED BY SHELBY COUNTY
                                           DES AND HAM RADIO SPOTTER.
WHW

Local storm report, Jul 4, 7:18 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
818 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

1040 PM        BULLITT COUNTY      KY      NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND
EDT            BULLITT COUNTY              POWER LINES DOWN. WIND
7/4/95                                     REPORTED 40 TO 50 MPH.
                                           TREES DOWN ACROSS A LOT OF
                                           THE COUNTY. REPORTED BY
                                           BULLITT COUNTY DES AND
                                           DISPATCH.
1057 PM        OLDHAM COUNTY       KY      NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN
EDT            OLDHAM COUNTY               NORTHERN OLDHAM COUNTY ALONG
7/4/95                                     HIGHWAY 42. POWER OUTAGES AND
                                           TREES DOWN IN WESTPORT AND
                                           LAGRANGE. OLDHAM COUNTY
                                           DISPATCH
WHW

Local storm report, Jul 4, 7:27 PM CDT, 1 minute before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
818 PM EDT TUE JUL 4 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....        ...REMARKS...

626 PM         GOSHEN              KY      POWER LINES DOWN. BOATERS
EDT            OLDHAM COUNTY               HAD TO BE RESCUED ON THE
7/4/95                                     OHIO RIVER. SEVERL HOMES
                                           STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. FROM
                                           OLDHAM COUNTY DISPATCH.

720 PM         NEW CASTLE          KY      TREES BLOWN DOWN ON HIGHWAY
EDT                                        421 IN NEW CASTLE KENTUCKY.
                                           TENTS WERE BLOWN DOWN AT THE
                                           FAIRGROUNDS IN NEW CASTLE.
                                           FROM HENRY COUNTY DISPATCH.
 WHW

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	33 min
Jul 4, 9:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	32 min
Jul 4, 9:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	34 min
Jul 4, 10:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	40 min
Jul 4, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Illinois, 1995 Every 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.