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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 1995Hardin County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 10:48 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 10:48 PM EDT (02:48 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Hardin County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3331 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1995-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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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, 38 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen46 min
May 14, 9:15 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKGreen45 min
May 14, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLarue36 min
May 14, 9:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion, Taylor39 min
May 14, 9:47 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMarion13 min
May 14, 10:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle41 min
May 14, 10:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington29 min
May 14, 10:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard38 min
May 14, 10:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMercer50 min
May 14, 10:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJessamine25 min
May 14, 11:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette29 min
May 14, 11:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark36 min
May 15, 12:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen44 min
May 15, 12:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRowan17 min
May 15, 12:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWayne35 min
May 15, 12:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRussell26 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.