Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT for Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Meade County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 207 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -179 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 102043 SVRSDF KYC029-093-163-102130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 440 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 530 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BULLITT COUNTY...NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY ...SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY AT 440 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BULLIT COUNTY NEAR NELSON...23 NM SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. WIND GUSTS TO 58 MPH AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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. MCT &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade | 31 min |
| May 10, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 50 min |
| May 10, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 46 min |
| May 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Nelson | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 38 min |
| May 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Marion, Taylor | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 34 min |
| May 10, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 29 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 28 min |
| May 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 39 min |
| May 10, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 35 min |
| May 10, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 25 min |
| May 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 15 min |
| May 10, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 26 min |
| May 10, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 25 min |
| May 10, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski | 31 min |
| May 10, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 25 min |
| May 10, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel, Rockcastle | 34 min |
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.