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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Louisville, KY

July 15, 1995Metcalfe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 11:48 AM CDT for Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 11:48 AM CDT (16:48 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 12:30 PM CDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Metcalfe County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 129 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2352 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2352 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1060 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 15, 10:35 AM CDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 9:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Hardin56 min
Jul 15, 10:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson37 min
Jul 15, 11:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson58 min
Jul 15, 12:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson28 min
Jul 15, 1:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCumberland49 min
Jul 15, 1:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey, Taylor53 min
Jul 15, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon37 min
Jul 15, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Montgomery33 min
Jul 15, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark35 min
Jul 15, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFleming32 min
Jul 15, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark27 min
Jul 15, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson48 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.