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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 1995Fayette County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 11:01 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 11:01 PM EDT (03:01 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Fayette County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -56 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1655 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 243 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KLEX 150300
SVRLEX
KYC067-150330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
1101 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ... SOUTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 1100 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF
LEXINGTON MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 TO 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL PASS
THROUGH FAYETTE COUNTY BY 1120.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLES(S IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
RIECK/PUMA

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, 51 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, 10:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	29 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, 11:09 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.