Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 7, 1995, 2:28 PM CST for Green County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 1995, 2:28 PM CST (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 1995, 3:00 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 627 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 355 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 072029 TORSDF KYC087-169-072100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 328 PM EST TUE MAR 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EST (300 PM CST) FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...GREEN COUNTY...NORTHERN METCALFE COUNTY AT 320 PM EST (220 PM CST)...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO ABOUT 55 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET NEAR THE TOWN OF KNOB LICK. MOVEMENT WAS NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL ARE ALSO LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SOME TOWNS IN AND NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE NEWT AND GREENSBURG. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. DARMOFAL/FUNK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 10:44 AM CST, 3 hours 44 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ90>92-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1145 AM EST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A STRONG COLD FRONT ROARED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO WEST KENTUCKY AT MID MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT OVER MUCH OF WEST KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MAKES ITS WAY EAST. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDER STORMS WILL BE FROM LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS SO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEAT~HER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS STORM SYSTEM. RNK
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 10:45 AM CST, 3 hours 43 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ90>92-072130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1145 AM EST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... A STRONG COLD FRONT ROARED ACROSS THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER INTO WEST KENTUCKY AT MID MORNING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT OVER MUCH OF WEST KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT AS THE COLD FRONT MAKES ITS WAY EAST. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THESE THUNDER STORMS WILL BE FROM LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG...GUSTY WINDS...IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS SO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL BROADCAST MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS STORM SYSTEM. RNK
Special weather statement, Mar 7, 11:23 AM CST, 3 hours 5 minutes before
KYZ024-025-028>034-038-045-046-053-INZ076>079-084-090>092-071925- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1223 PM EST TUE MAR 7 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND GUSTY WINDS WERE MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA... AT 1215 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS FROM SALEM IN WASHINGTON COUNTY INDIANA TO JUST NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 TO 50 MPH. LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA AROUND 1 PM...AND THEN SPREAD ACROSS THE REST OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY DURING THE AFTERNOON. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INCLUDING THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA THIS AFTERNOON. DARMOFAL/FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 12:22 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 38 min |
| Mar 7, 2:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 25 min |
| Mar 7, 2:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 35 min |
| Mar 7, 2:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Taylor | 43 min |
| Mar 7, 3:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Woodford | 28 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.