Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 10, 1995, 5:26 PM EDT for Anderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Anderson County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 221 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLEX 102126 TORLEX KYC005-102200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 526 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...ANDERSON COUNTY AT 525 PM EDT...A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS SPOTTED BY DES AND WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL NEAR BLOOMFIELD...ABOUT 20 MILES WEST SOUTHWEST OF LAWRENCEBURG...AND 40 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON. THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WILL APPROACH LAWRENCEBURG BY 540 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 FURNITURBE. 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. RIECK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade | 31 min |
| May 10, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 50 min |
| May 10, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 50 min |
| May 10, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 46 min |
| May 10, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Nelson | 30 min |
| May 10, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 38 min |
| May 10, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Marion, Taylor | 37 min |
| May 10, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 29 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 10, 5:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 28 min |
| May 10, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 39 min |
| May 10, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 35 min |
| May 10, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 25 min |
| May 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 15 min |
| May 10, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 26 min |
| May 10, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 25 min |
| May 10, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski | 31 min |
| May 10, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 25 min |
| May 10, 7:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel, Rockcastle | 34 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.