Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 1:32 PM EDT for Martin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Martin County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 63 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 KCRW 101728 SVRCRW KYC159-101815- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 132 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...MARTIN COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOW AND KENTUCKY STATE POLICE REPORT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO MARTIN COUNTY KY. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE DAMAGING HAIL. THE THUNDERSTORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. EOM
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 10, 12:40 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
OHZ066-102300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1234 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THERE IS A THREAT OF TORNADOES ACROSS MUCH OF OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF OHIO UNTIL 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING. THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES PERRY COUNTY, OHIO. THE TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO PERRY COUNTY, OHIO THIS AFTERNOON. SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MIGHT BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORNADOES. LISTEN FOR LATER FORECASTS OR WARNINGS DISCRIBING THIS TORNADO WATCH. IF THE SKY LOOKS UNUSUALLY THREATENING, OR IF A WARNING IS ISSUED, SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY. EOM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Martin | 31 min |
| May 10, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Martin | 27 min |
| May 10, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Elliott | 38 min |
| May 10, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Lawrence | 37 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.