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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 161, NWS Louisville, KY

May 25, 1996Allen County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1996, 11:13 PM CDT for Allen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 25, 1996, 11:13 PM CDT (04:13 UTC)
Expired
May 25, 1996, 11:45 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Allen County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:14 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 78 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1961 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1961 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 25, 9:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMKBarren56 min
May 25, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren56 min
May 26, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock39 min
May 26, 1:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOhio40 min
May 26, 1:36 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin39 min
May 26, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler, Grayson61 min
May 26, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin, Scott, Woodford48 min
May 26, 1:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry48 min
May 26, 2:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark35 min
May 26, 6:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMeade47 min
May 26, 6:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock40 min
May 26, 10:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClinton, Cumberland39 min
May 26, 2:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge36 min
May 26, 2:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart22 min
May 26, 2:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren16 min
May 26, 3:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Metcalfe25 min
May 26, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMetcalfe29 min
May 26, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCumberland, Metcalfe46 min
May 26, 5:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMonroe23 min
May 26, 12:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford33 min
May 26, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Washington44 min
May 26, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKDubois50 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKDubois35 min
May 26, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOrange45 min
May 26, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKCrawford45 min
May 26, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKPerry35 min
May 26, 6:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLMKDubois29 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.