Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 14, 1995, 12:32 AM CDT for Caldwell County, Crittenden County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 1995, 12:32 AM CDT (05:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1995, 1:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Caldwell County, KY, Crittenden County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 3482 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 806 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 291 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 6.4
- Supercell composite
- 30.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KPAH 140532 TORPAH KYC033-055-140600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PADUCAH KY 1232 AM CDT SUN MAY 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PADUCAH HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN WEST KENTUCKY ...NORTHERN CALDWELL COUNTY...SOUTHERN CRITTENDEN COUNTY A TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO MOVE THROUGH OR NEAR FREDONIA KY BY 1240 AM. AT 1230 AM...DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 30 MILES EAST OF PADUCAH...OR JUST EAST OF SMITHLAND KY. STORM SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WITH THIS STORM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR COMMUNITIES FROM MARION TO PRINCETON KY...ESPECIALLY AROUND FREDONIA...YOU ARE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THIS STORM AND SHOULD SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENClH 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. DLH &
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, May 13, 7:41 PM CDT, 4 hours 51 minutes before
KYZ054-064>069-076>088-106-108>118-120-140050- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 646 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 370 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR ANY PORTION OF KENTUCKY. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED FOR SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY FOR THIS EVENING. AB
Special weather statement, May 14, 12:30 AM CDT, 2 minutes before
KYZALL-INZ090>092-141200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 125 AM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995 ...TORNADO WATCH FOR MUCH OF WEST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY...AS WELL AS PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA...THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE NIGHT... AT 125 AM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN AND NEAR KENTUCKY. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS ACROSS THE REGION AS THE NIGHT WEARS ON. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE SEVERE...AND MAY PRODUCE TORNADOES. THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. PERSONS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT...AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. STUREY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 12:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 42 min |
| May 14, 12:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Meade | 52 min |
| May 14, 1:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 43 min |
| May 14, 1:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 29 min |
| May 14, 1:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 32 min |
| May 14, 1:48 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 27 min |
| May 14, 2:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 28 min |
| May 14, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 62 min |
| May 14, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 41 min |
| May 14, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 41 min |
| May 14, 2:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 38 min |
| May 14, 2:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 65 min |
| May 14, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 50 min |
| May 14, 2:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 50 min |
| May 14, 2:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott, Woodford | 59 min |
| May 14, 3:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 42 min |
| May 14, 3:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 53 min |
| May 14, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison | 65 min |
| May 14, 3:24 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 36 min |
| May 14, 3:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 29 min |
| May 14, 3:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair | 5 hr |
| May 14, 4:01 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 4 hr |
| May 14, 4:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Russell | 5 hr |
| May 14, 4:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 4 hr |
| May 14, 4:08 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Marion | 4 hr |
| May 14, 4:31 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green | 29 min |
| May 14, 4:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 29 min |
| May 14, 4:34 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green | 4 hr |
| May 14, 4:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Russell | 30 min |
| May 14, 4:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Cumberland | 34 min |
| May 14, 5:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 4 hr |
| May 14, 5:10 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Pulaski | 4 hr |
| May 14, 5:23 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Casey, Taylor | 4 hr |
| May 14, 5:52 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | McCreary, Wayne | 4 hr |
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.