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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 1996Crawford County, Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 6:11 PM EST for Crawford County, Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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 28, 1996, 6:11 PM EST (23:11 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IN, Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 28, 6:20 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Countywide, IN

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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 237 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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 28, 5:14 PM EST, 57 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
615 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...j

600 PM EDT                            IN      FIRE FIGHTER REPORTED A
5/28/96    HARRISON                           TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST HARRISON
                                              COUNTY.

JA

Local storm report, May 28, 5:26 PM EST, 45 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
625 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...|

622 PM EDT     VALLEY STATION           KY      1 INCH HAIL
5/28/96        JEFFERSON

LD

Local storm report, May 28, 5:49 PM EST, 22 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
648 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

645 PM EDT     BROOKS                  KY      TORNADO ON GROUND
5/28/96        BULLITT                         SEMI TURNED OVER ON
                                               I-65

LD

Local storm report, May 28, 5:52 PM EST, 19 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
652 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

652 PM EDT     LOUISVILLE                  KY      DIME SIZE HAIL
5/28/96        KENTUCKY

LD

Local storm report, May 28, 5:57 PM EST, 14 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
655 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

655 PM EDT     MT. WASHINGTON           KY      TORNADO ON GROUND
5/28/96        KENTUCKY

LD

Local storm report, May 28, 6:10 PM EST, 1 minute before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
705 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

705 PM EDT     JEFFERSON               KY      RO0FS OFF TREES DOWN
5/28/96        KENTUCKY                        TORNADO SIGHTED AT
                                               TIME OF DESTRUCTION
                                        

LD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 9:41 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Estill, Powell	119 min
May 28, 9:41 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Montgomery	119 min
May 28, 5:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Logan	43 min
May 28, 5:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	69 min
May 28, 5:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Jefferson	46 min
May 28, 5:57 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Warren	48 min
May 28, 6:00 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Spencer	45 min
May 28, 6:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	29 min
May 28, 6:34 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Anderson	41 min
May 28, 6:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	47 min
May 28, 6:46 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Allen, Barren	44 min
May 28, 6:50 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Shelby	20 min
May 28, 6:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	38 min
May 28, 3:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	34 min
May 28, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	36 min
May 28, 4:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	18 min
May 28, 4:39 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	36 min
May 28, 4:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	30 min
May 28, 4:56 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Harrison	34 min
May 28, 5:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	45 min
May 28, 6:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	39 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.