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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Louisville, KY

May 8, 1996Franklin County, Shelby County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 8, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT for Franklin County, Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 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
May 8, 1996, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired
May 8, 1996, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, KY, Shelby County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 89 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
89 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
611 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 8, 5:36 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 7:41 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge64 min
May 8, 7:41 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBreckinridge79 min
May 8, 10:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKHenry, Oldham, Trimble85 min
May 8, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble50 min
May 8, 5:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry, Oldham39 min
May 8, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Scott48 min
May 8, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry27 min
May 8, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Nicholas42 min
May 8, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette42 min
May 8, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Fleming42 min
May 8, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Montgomery42 min
May 8, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRowan28 min
May 8, 7:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry73 min
May 8, 7:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry58 min
May 8, 9:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKDubois, Orange3 hr
May 8, 9:43 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Scott, Washington62 min
May 8, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange54 min
May 8, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington54 min
May 8, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Scott54 min
May 8, 5:18 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKScott27 min
May 8, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison50 min
May 8, 5:28 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKJefferson17 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.