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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Louisville, KY

May 14, 1995Marion County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1995, 9:47 PM EDT for Marion County, Kentucky. It was in force for 13 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 14, 1995, 9:47 PM EDT (01:47 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 13 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Marion County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 198 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 150149
TORSDF
KYC155-150200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
947 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
 
   ...MARION COUNTY
 
AT 9:46 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 45 MILES NORTHWEST
OF SOMERSET KENTUCKY IN MARION COUNTY MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE
STORM WILL MOVE INTO BRADFORDSVILLE KENTUCKY BY 10:00 PM EDT.
 
 
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 SHE~LTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
KLIEN/WILSON

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, 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, 11:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	29 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

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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.