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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Louisville, KY

May 26, 1996Orange County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1996, 6:30 PM EST for Orange County, Indiana. 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
May 26, 1996, 6:30 PM EST (23:30 UTC)
Expired
May 26, 1996, 7:15 PM EST
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Orange County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:32 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 254 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-05-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 1996-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
571 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
220 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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 ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKBarren56 min
May 25, 9:19 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren56 min
May 25, 11:13 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAllen32 min
May 26, 12:21 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock39 min
May 26, 1:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOhio40 min
May 26, 1:36 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin39 min
May 26, 1:44 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler, Grayson61 min
May 26, 1:57 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin, Scott, Woodford48 min
May 26, 1:57 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry48 min
May 26, 2:40 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark35 min
May 26, 6:13 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMeade47 min
May 26, 6:20 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHancock40 min
May 26, 10:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClinton, Cumberland39 min
May 26, 2:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge36 min
May 26, 2:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart22 min
May 26, 2:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren16 min
May 26, 3:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Metcalfe25 min
May 26, 3:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMetcalfe29 min
May 26, 3:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCumberland, Metcalfe46 min
May 26, 5:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMonroe23 min
May 26, 12:12 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford33 min
May 26, 12:16 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison, Washington44 min
May 26, 5:40 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKDubois50 min
May 26, 6:10 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKDubois35 min
May 26, 6:30 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKCrawford45 min
May 26, 6:40 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKPerry35 min
May 26, 6:46 PM ESTTornado 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.