Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 172, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 7:16 PM EDT for Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 28, 1996, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:00 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Sanders, KY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 28, 2:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 28, 2:24 PM EDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 224 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 FOCUS OF SVR WX/TRW THREAT WILL BE ACROSS OH RVR REGION THIS EVENING. CAPES FCST TO GO TO 1000 J/KG...VORT ADV/LF QUAD OF JET...PLENTY OF MOIST FOR TRW DVLPMENT. GRIDDED DATA SHWG BEST AT 00Z AT CVG (L2Z FROM NGM CONCURS)...SO MAINLY LOOKING AT AN EVE EVENT IN THE WEST...TNT EVENT ACROSS EAST. MOST OF GOOD DYNAMICS GONE BY 06Z. LOWS TNT SHUD NOT BE TOO FAR FROM CRNT DWPTS. CLOUDS SHUD DOMINATE. CHC OF SHOWERS NEEDED FOR FIRST HALF OF WED AS S/W CROSSES REGION. TEMP WILL NOT RISE MUCH W/ CLDS AND CAA. THINKING MOS STILL TOO HIGH W/ TEMPS AS WINDS REMAIN EASTERLY AND WILL LEAN TWDS CRNT CLE #/S...BUT BUMP THEM UP A TAD. IMPROVING CONDS ON WED NITE AND THU SHUD BE NICE DAY. MOS #/S STILL TOO HI FOR HIGH TEMPS ON THU. HWVR WILL GO CLOSE TO MOS/FAN #/S AS WINDS STAY UP THRU THE NIGHT. CVG 62/68/47/68 DAY 56/64/45/65 CMH 57/64/44/65 FARINA
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 28, 2:46 PM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COVINGTON, KY
246 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM MAYS LICK KY WIND DAMAGE
5/28/96 MASON BARN DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS
BLOWN DOWN.
KELLSLocal storm report, May 28, 2:50 PM EDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
250 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION....
1230 PM MAYS LICK KY WIND DAMAGE
5/27/96 MASON BARN DESTROYED AND NUMEROUS
TREES BLOWN DOWN.
KELLS
...CORRECTION TO ADD FOR MISSING DATA AND TO CORRECT DATE OF
OCC$URRENCE...Special weather statement, May 28, 5:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
INDZ050-058-073-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 510 PM EDT (410 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 ...TORNDAO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT (1000 PM EST) FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA... THE TORNADO WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF WAYNE...FAYETTE AND RIPLEY. AT 5 PM EDT (4 PM EST) A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PUSH INTO EASTERN INDIANA BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM EDT (6 AND 7 PM EST). SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RANDALL
Special weather statement, May 28, 5:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
INDZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-OHZ042-051>056-060>065-070>074- OHZ077>082-088-KYZ089>100-290200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 555 PM EDT (455 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEAST INDIANA AND SOUTHWEST OHIO EARLY THIS EVENING... AT 550 PM (450 PM EST) A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING EAST INTO CENTRAL INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PUSH INTO EASTERN INDIANA BETWEEN 630 AND 7 PM EDT (530 AND 6 PM EST) AND INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...INCLUDING THE CINCINNATI METRO AREA AROUND 7 PM EDT. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY .IN WEST CENTRAL INDIANA. IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA...SOUTHWEST OHIO...OR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RANDALL
Special weather statement, May 28, 6:51 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
INDZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-OHZ060>065-070>074-OHZ077>082- OHZ088-KYZ089>100-290600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 650 PM EDT (550 PM EST) TUE MAY 28 1996 ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 1 AM EDT FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN INDIANA... SOUTHWEST OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY...CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO... ...TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR WAYNE...FAYETTE AND RIPLEY COUNTIES IN EASTERN INDIANA... AT 640 PM (540 PM EST) AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS PUSHING INTO EASTERN INDIANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL PUSH INTO SOUTHEAST INDIANA BETWEEN 700 AND 730 PM EDT AND INTO SOUTHWEST OHIO AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...INCLUDING THE CINCINNATI METRO BY 8 PM. SOME OF THESE STORMS HAVE HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADIC ACTIVITY IN WESTERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY. NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL HAVE BEEN RECIEVED FROM THESE STORMS. SOME OF THE HAIL HAS BEEN AS LARGE AS BASEBALL SIZE. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION! IF YOU ARE IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA... SOUTHERN OHIO...OR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...YOU SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Ripley | 53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.