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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 1995Green County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT for Green County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 8:15 PM CDT (01:15 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 9:00 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Green County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 150122 COR
TORSDF
KYC087-150200-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
915 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

   ...GREEN COUNTY

AT 9:15 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN CENTRAL
GREEN COUNTY...45 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. THIS TORNADO
WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE TO JUST SOUTH OF
GREENSBURG BY 9:45 PM EDT.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT@...DITCH
OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. DO NOT GO NEAR
DOWNED POWER LINES.

WILSON/KLEIN
CORRECTED CITY OF GREENSBURG.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	46 min
May 14, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	36 min
May 14, 8:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	39 min
May 14, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion	13 min
May 14, 9:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	41 min
May 14, 9:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	29 min
May 14, 9:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard	38 min
May 14, 9:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	50 min
May 14, 9:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	42 min
May 14, 9:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine	25 min
May 14, 10:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	29 min
May 14, 10:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	36 min
May 14, 11:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	44 min
May 14, 11:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	17 min
May 14, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Wayne	35 min
May 14, 11:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	26 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.