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Tornado Warning 45, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 1995, 7:22 PM CDT for Crittenden County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 7:22 PM CDT (00:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Crittenden County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 3366 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1273 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 KPAH 090022 TORPAH KYC055-139-090100- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 722 PM CDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 800 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...CRITTENDEN COUNTY...EASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO IN EASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY NEAR BURNA OR 20 MILES EAST OF PADUCAH. THE STORM WILL MOVE EAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD AFFECT THE MIDWAY COMMUNITY AROUND 730 TO 740 PM. 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 9:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 10:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 11:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 26 min |
| Jun 8, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Boyle, Mercer | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Russell | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 11:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton | 25 min |
| Jun 8, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski, Wayne | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 11:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Jun 8, 11:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Menifee | 65 min |
| Jun 9, 12:04 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel, McCreary, Whitley | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 39 min |
| Jun 9, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 6:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 26 min |
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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.