Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 253, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 9:30 AM EDT for Lewis County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 19, 1996, 9:30 AM EDT (13:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lewis County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 350 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
- 1573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 639 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 10.5
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 Jul 18, 6:38 PM EDT, 14 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 18, 6:38 PM EDT, 14 hours 52 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Brown, Highland | 28 min |
| Jul 19, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont | 37 min |
| Jul 19, 8:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont | 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.