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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Louisville, KY

August 18, 1995Laurel County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 3:54 PM EDT for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 min.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 18, 1995, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired
Aug 18, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Laurel County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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 1995-08-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1014 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 1995-08-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
1014 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.7

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 18, 7:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette, Jessamine40 min

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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.