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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 193, NWS Louisville, KY

July 23, 1995Jefferson County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 2:27 PM EST for Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 1995, 2:27 PM EST (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 1995, 3:00 PM EST
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 163 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: 302 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 69 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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

Local storm report, Jul 23, 1:10 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 23, 1:11 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 23, 5:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	53 min
Jul 23, 5:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	39 min
Jul 23, 6:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Hardin	49 min
Jul 23, 6:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Scott	39 min
Jul 23, 6:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	42 min
Jul 23, 6:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	51 min
Jul 23, 5:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.