Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 201, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 8:07 PM CDT for Adair County, Cumberland County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 23, 1995, 8:07 PM CDT (01:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 1995, 8:35 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Adair County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 2881 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 240110 RRA SVRSDF KYC001-057-169-240145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 907 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM CDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ADAIR COUNTY...CUMBERLAND COUNTY...METCALFE COUNTY AT 808 CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF EDMONTON TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF COLUMBIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE COLUMBIA...BURKESVILLE AND BREEDING. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. GO TO THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR LOWEST LEVEL IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOWNED WIRES. RNK
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 23, 4:45 PM CDT, 3 hours 22 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, 4:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 20 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
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KYZ001>013-016>032-061-062-INZ090>092-240205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 800 PM EDT (700 PM CDT) SUN JUL 23 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM HOPKINSVILLE IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY NORTHEAST TO ELIZABETHTOWN IN HARDIN COUNTY TO A POINT ON THE BORDER OF NORTHERN TRIMBLE COUNTY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE WEE HOURS...HOWEVER... THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COUNTIES SOUTH AND EAST OF THE MENTIONED COUNTIES. CONGER : Q&JVf1ZJ>& @2hRzd|vj"f^J>>^f:*$RFb~w
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 7:06 PM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before
KYZ001>013-016>032-061-062-INZ090>092-240205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 800 PM EDT (700 PM CDT) SUN JUL 23 1995 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NORTH AND WEST OF A LINE FROM HOPKINSVILLE IN CHRISTIAN COUNTY NORTHEAST TO ELIZABETHTOWN IN HARDIN COUNTY TO A POINT ON THE BORDER OF NORTHERN TRIMBLE COUNTY ARE NOT INCLUDED IN THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL STILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE WEE HOURS...HOWEVER... THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR COUNTIES SOUTH AND EAST OF THE MENTIONED COUNTIES. CONGER : Q&JVf1ZJ>& @2hRzd|vj"f^J>>^f:*$RFb~w
Nearby
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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.