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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Louisville, KY

May 27, 1996Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 1996, 1:27 PM EDT for Estill County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 1996, 1:27 PM EDT (17:27 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 1996, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Estill County, KY, Powell County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 27, 2:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, KY
May 27, 2:05 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 186 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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

Special weather statement, May 27, 10:59 AM EDT, 2 hours 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 1:25 PM EDT, 2 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 26, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	39 min
May 26, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Ohio	40 min
May 26, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin	48 min
May 27, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Marion, Washington	34 min
May 27, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Taylor	41 min
May 27, 1:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine	45 min
May 27, 1:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	36 min
May 27, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fleming	44 min
May 27, 1:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Clark, Montgomery	39 min
May 27, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	48 min
May 27, 1:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	48 min
May 27, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Wayne	52 min
May 27, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Pulaski	52 min
May 27, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rockcastle	26 min
May 27, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Laurel	29 min
May 26, 9:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Dubois, Perry	24 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.