Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 8:38 PM EDT for Henry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1995, 8:38 PM EDT (00:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Henry County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -49 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 250039 SVRSDF KYC103-250115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 838 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 915 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...HENRY COUNTY AT 830 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER OLDHAM COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM PRODUCED DAMAGING WINDS TO 60 MPH AT BUCKNER. SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH ARE NEW CASTLE AND EMINENCE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. GO TO THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT O:R LOWEST LEVEL IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOWNED WIRES. DARMOFAL &
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 24, 8:38 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
832 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995
FOR STORMS WHICH OCCURRED ON MAY 18TH
TIME EDT ...CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ...COUNTY LOCATION... ...REMARKS...
756 PM EDT NEW ALBANY...FLOYD IN WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.
COUNTY
800 PM EDT NE FLOYD COUNTY IN PEA SIZE HAIL.
5NW LOUISVILLE
806 PM EDT JEFFERSONVILLE IN POWER LINES DOWN.
CLARK COUNTY...4 NE LOU
810 PM EDT CLARK/FLOYD COUNTY IN TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
4NW LOU ON CLARK/FLOYD COUNTY LINE RD.
815 PM EDT OLDHAM4 COUNTY KY PEA SIZE HAIL...NO WIND.
20 NNE LOU REPORTED BY SPOTTER.
830 PM EDT BUCKNER...OLDHAM COUNTY KY GUSTS TO 60 MPH
20 ENE LOU REPORTED BY HAM
DATTILOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 8:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 28 min |
| May 24, 11:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 42 min |
| May 25, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel | 17 min |
| May 25, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 41 min |
| May 25, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Whitley | 20 min |
| May 25, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 27 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.