Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 6:51 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 6:51 PM EDT (22:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 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
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, 2:10 PM EDT, 4 hours 41 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ090>092-240400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 545 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS SUNDAY EVENING... A LINE OF STORMS WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL HAD FORMED JUST NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER...STRETCHING ALONG THE RIVER AND DIPPING SOUTH INTO FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...AND THE ENTIRE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. AT THIS TIME THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE BLUEGRASS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHUR INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOORE
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 5:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ090>092-240400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 545 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MOST OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS SUNDAY EVENING... A LINE OF STORMS WITH MODERATE TO HEAVY RAINFALL HAD FORMED JUST NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER...STRETCHING ALONG THE RIVER AND DIPPING SOUTH INTO FAR WESTERN KENTUCKY. THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...AND THE ENTIRE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 25 MPH. AT THIS TIME THERE WERE NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS THE BLUEGRASS. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONXDITIONS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHUR INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MOORE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 53 min |
| Jul 23, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 39 min |
| Jul 23, 7:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 23 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.