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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 1995Washington County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 10:16 PM EDT for Washington County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 10:16 PM EDT (02:16 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Washington County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 220 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: 3331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 761 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 3.5
Supercell composite: 13.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 150217
SVRSDF
KYC229-150245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1016 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 10:16 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES
SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE...JUST NORTHWEST OF SPRINGFIELD KENTUCKY.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO
THOMPSONVILLE AND WILLISBURG BY 10:30 PM EDT.
 
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE TO
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  ONCE INSIDE...
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT GO NEAR DOWNED POWER LINES.
 
FUNK/KLEIN/WILSON

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 14, 10:10 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1010 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

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

1005 PM EDT   MARION COUNTY                    SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER
              NEW MARKET                       REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL.

RNK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	46 min
May 14, 9:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green	45 min
May 14, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	36 min
May 14, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	39 min
May 14, 9:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion	13 min
May 14, 10:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	41 min
May 14, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	38 min
May 14, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	50 min
May 14, 10:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	42 min
May 14, 10:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine	25 min
May 14, 11:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	29 min
May 14, 11:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	36 min
May 15, 12:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	44 min
May 15, 12:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	17 min
May 15, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Wayne	35 min
May 15, 12:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Every 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.