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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Louisville, KY

May 18, 1995Laurel County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1995, 9:18 PM EDT for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1995, 9:18 PM EDT (01:18 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1995, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Laurel County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1240 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 361 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 18, 8:21 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
815 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

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

540 PM EDT   NEW BETHEL                KY     TORNADO DAMAGED SOME HOMES...
5/18/95      BRECKINGRIDGE                    NO INJURIES...
                                              TREES DOWN ALL OVER COUNTY...
                                              NEW BETHEL IS NORTH OF
                                              HARDINSBURG...

CMC

Special weather statement, May 18, 8:25 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

KYZ007>013-190300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
102 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY.
THE COUNTIES ARE LIVINGSTON...LYON...CALLOWAY...TRIGG...CALDWELL AND
CRITTENDEN.
WILSON

Special weather statement, May 18, 8:35 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

KYZ007>013-014>022-026-061-070-072-190400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
835 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

THE TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR WESTERN KENTUCKY.
WILSON

Local storm report, May 18, 8:40 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
840 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

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

800 PM EDT   COUNTY WIDE               KY     WIND DAMAGE..ROADS
5/18/95      PULASKI                          BLOCKED BY TREES.
                                              TREE THROUGH A TRAILOR.
                                              FUNNELS SPOTTED IN AIR.
                                              1/2 INCH HAIL.

755 PM EDT   COOPER CREEK              KY     FUNNEL CLOUD SPOTTED
             ROCKCASTLE                       IN AIR.

SCHOLZ

Local storm report, May 18, 8:46 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
845 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

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

810 PM EDT   EAST  BERNSTAT            KY     TORNADO TOUCHDOWN NORTH
5/18/95      LAUREL                           OF LONDON. BUILDINGS
                                              DAMAGED AND TREES DOWNED.
                                              HIGH WINDS AND HAIL IN
                                              LONDON.

SCHOLZ

Local storm report, May 18, 9:07 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 18, 8:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Laurel, Rockcastle	46 min
May 18, 8:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison, Scott	35 min
May 18, 8:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	34 min
May 18, 8:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Pulaski, Wayne	27 min
May 18, 8:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton	27 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.