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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 144, NWS Louisville, KY

May 24, 1996Menifee County, Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1996, 8:54 PM EDT for Menifee County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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 24, 1996, 8:54 PM EDT (00:54 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Menifee County, KY, Powell County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 92 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson44 min
May 24, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt23 min
May 24, 9:36 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKSpencer24 min
May 24, 9:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEstill, Powell33 min
May 24, 9:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson45 min
May 24, 9:54 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLarue36 min
May 24, 10:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMercer29 min
May 24, 10:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette41 min
May 24, 10:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard, Madison51 min
May 24, 10:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWoodford26 min
May 24, 10:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJessamine29 min
May 24, 10:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEstill37 min
May 24, 10:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath27 min
May 24, 11:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMcCreary28 min
May 24, 11:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPulaski25 min
May 24, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPulaski31 min
May 24, 11:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWhitley26 min
May 25, 12:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWhitley35 min
May 24, 8:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Washington35 min
May 24, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison35 min
May 24, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Floyd54 min
May 24, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKScott54 min
May 24, 8:56 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKJefferson34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.