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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 199, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 1996Dubois County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 3:56 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 28, 1996, 3:56 PM EST (20:56 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 4:30 PM EST
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Dubois County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 248 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 1996-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 277 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 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
277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-124 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
815 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.4

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 9:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKEstill, Powell119 min
May 28, 9:41 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningLMKMontgomery119 min
May 28, 5:17 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan43 min
May 28, 5:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson69 min
May 28, 5:44 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson46 min
May 28, 5:57 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKWarren48 min
May 28, 6:00 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKSpencer45 min
May 28, 6:16 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble29 min
May 28, 6:34 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKAnderson41 min
May 28, 6:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Oldham47 min
May 28, 6:46 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Barren44 min
May 28, 6:50 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKShelby20 min
May 28, 6:52 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin38 min
May 28, 4:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Orange36 min
May 28, 4:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKPerry18 min
May 28, 4:39 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington36 min
May 28, 4:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison30 min
May 28, 4:56 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKHarrison34 min
May 28, 5:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois, Orange45 min
May 28, 6:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison49 min
May 28, 6:21 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFloyd39 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.