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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Louisville, KY

July 16, 1995Pulaski County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 4:37 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 355 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, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1154 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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, Jul 16, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson48 min
Jul 16, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKScott, Woodford41 min
Jul 16, 4:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFleming34 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.