Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 1:45 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
- Jan 18, 1996, 1:45 PM EST (18:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 2:30 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 18:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 253 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1255 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 500 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 535 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 181846 RRA SVRSDF INC025-117-KYC027-163-181930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 145 PM EST THU JAN 18 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY...MEADE COUNTY AT 140 PM EST (1240 PM CST)...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM 55 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE TO ABOUT 60 SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE LINE IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL REACH PAOLI AND ENGLISH AROUND 200 PM EST...HARDINSBURG IN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY AROUND 215 PM EST (115 PM CST)...AND BRANDENBURG IN MEADE COUNTY BETWEEN 215 AND 230 PM EST. DAMAGING WINDS AND A PERIOD OF VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. FUNK
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, Jan 18, 9:08 AM EST, 4 hours 37 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 908 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY AS WELL AS SEVERAL SURROUNDING STATES. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2:00 PM EST (1:OO PM CST). A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AROUND JONESBORO ARKANSAS. THIS VERY UNSETTLED WEATHER IS IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY BY EARLY AFTERNOON. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERICAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS ON THIS STRONG STORM SYSTEM. AMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 9:10 AM EST, 4 hours 35 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 908 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY AS WELL AS SEVERAL SURROUNDING STATES. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2:00 PM EST (1:OO PM CST). A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AROUND JONESBORO ARKANSAS. THIS VERY UNSETTLED WEATHER IS IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY BY EARLY AFTERNOON. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERICAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMEN TS ON THIS STRONG STORM SYSTEM. AMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:35 AM EST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-190000- KENTUCKY SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1035 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AND STRONG WIND FIELDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL BE IN PLACE. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THIS AIR MASS...A PERIOD OF STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE...NUMEROUS STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EAST KENTUCKY LATER THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AS WELL. AFTER THE COLD FRONT PASSES...SHARPLY COLDER AIR AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL SPREAD ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING...AND EAST KENTUCKY OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION OF THIS WEATHER SITUATION. FUNK
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 10:37 AM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-190000- KENTUCKY SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1035 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AND STRONG WIND FIELDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL BE IN PLACE. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THIS AIR MASS...A PERIOD OF STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE...NUMEROUS STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EAST KENTUCKY LATER THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AS WELL. AFTER THE COLD FRONT PASSES...SHARPLY COLDER AIR AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL SPREAD ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING...AND EAST KENTUCKY OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION OF THIS WEATHER SITUATION. FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 1:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 45 min |
| Jan 18, 2:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 44 min |
| Jan 18, 2:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996
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.