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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Louisville, KY

May 26, 1996Butler County, Grayson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 1:44 AM CDT for Butler County, Grayson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 61 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 26, 1996, 1:44 AM CDT (06:44 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 1996, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Butler County, KY, Grayson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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.

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 26, 12:17 AM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Barren	56 min
May 25, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	56 min
May 25, 11:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	32 min
May 26, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	39 min
May 26, 1:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Ohio	40 min
May 26, 1:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	39 min
May 26, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott, Woodford	48 min
May 26, 1:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry	48 min
May 26, 2:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	35 min
May 26, 6:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	47 min
May 26, 6:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hancock	40 min
May 26, 10:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	39 min
May 26, 2:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	36 min
May 26, 2:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	22 min
May 26, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	16 min
May 26, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	25 min
May 26, 3:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	29 min
May 26, 3:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe	46 min
May 26, 5:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	23 min
May 26, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford	33 min
May 26, 12:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison, Washington	44 min
May 26, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	50 min
May 26, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	35 min
May 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	45 min
May 26, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Crawford	45 min
May 26, 6:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	35 min
May 26, 6:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Dubois	29 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.