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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Louisville, KY

May 10, 1995Fayette County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 5:36 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1995, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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: 202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -223 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1371 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, May 10, 4:47 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
446 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....          ...REMARKS...

0445 PM     MOUNT WASHINGTON        KY      3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED
5/10/95     N. BULLITT CO.                  BY PUBLIC

MK

Local storm report, May 10, 5:06 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
503 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....          ...REMARKS...

0500 PM     5 MILES NW OF BARDSTOWN KY      1 INCH HAIL REPORTED
5/10/95     NWRN NELSON CO.                 BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
                                            EMPLOYEE
MK

Local storm report, May 10, 5:12 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
509 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....          ...REMARKS...

0445 PM     ALONG HWY 210          KY       3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
5/10/95     NWRN TAYLOR CO.                 TAYLOR CO. DES

0500 PM     ALONG MARION/TAYLOR    KY       1 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
            CO. LINE                        PUBLIC

MK

Local storm report, May 10, 5:20 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
517 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....          ...REMARKS...

0500 PM     NEAR NAZARETH          KY       FUNNEL CLOUD SPOOTED BY POLICE
5/10/95     NCNTRL NELSON CO.

MK

Local storm report, May 10, 5:24 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
521 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....          ...REMARKS...

0521 PM     NRN/SRN TAYLOR CO.     KY       TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
5/10/95     TAYLOR CO.                      CAMPBELLSVILLE 911

0521 PM     NRN TAYLOR CO.         KY       3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY
                                            CAMPBELLSVILLE 911

MK

Local storm report, May 10, 5:31 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...SPELLING CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
530 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....          ...REMARKS...

0500 PM     NEAR NAZARETH          KY       FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED BY POLICE
5/10/95     NCNTRL NELSON CO.

MK

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, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	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, 5:40 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.