Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 221, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 1996, 9:39 PM EDT for Estill County, Montgomery County, Powell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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 28, 1996, 9:39 PM EDT (01:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Estill County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 9:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Countywide, KY | |
| May 28, 10:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Irvine, 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 307 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
- 2991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.6
- Supercell composite
- 16.0
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, 8:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 815 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 814 PM EDT LUCAS KY TORANDO ON GROUND 5/28/96 BARREN LD
Local storm report, May 28, 8:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 834 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 830 PM EDT HWY 33 AND 169 KY TORNADO ON GROUND 5/28/96 WOODFORD REPORTED BY FIRE DEPT LD
Local storm report, May 28, 8:50 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 848 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 840 PM EDT KY 1.75 HAIL 5/28/96 N JESSAMINE 810 PM EDT KY ROOFS OFF 5/28/96 BRECKINRIDGE LOG CABIN DESTROYED LD
Local storm report, May 28, 8:53 PM EDT, 46 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 848 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 840 PM EDT FOX CREEK KY BARN DESTROYED 5/28/96 ANDERSON CAR LOT DAMAGED LD
Local storm report, May 28, 8:55 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 855 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 820 PM EDT LAWRENCEBURG KY 100 YD TORNADO PATH 5/28/96 ANDERSON THROUGH TOWN LD
Local storm report, May 28, 9:37 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
935 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
930 PM EDT KY NUMEROUS TORNADO
5/28/96 JESSAMINE SIGHTINGS. TREES
DOWN COUNTY WIDE.
8 NUMEROUS ROADS
BLOCKED.
LDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 27 min |
| May 28, 8:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 39 min |
| May 28, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 20 min |
| May 28, 8:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Woodford | 48 min |
| May 28, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Monroe | 43 min |
| May 28, 8:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 46 min |
| May 28, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Nelson, Washington | 40 min |
| May 28, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 40 min |
| May 28, 8:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 42 min |
| May 28, 8:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 47 min |
| May 28, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford | 27 min |
| May 28, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 39 min |
| May 28, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Madison | 49 min |
| May 28, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 43 min |
| May 28, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 43 min |
| May 28, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 38 min |
| May 28, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 35 min |
| May 28, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 30 min |
| May 28, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Lincoln | 40 min |
| May 28, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 51 min |
| May 28, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fleming | 50 min |
| May 28, 10:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Estill | 27 min |
| May 28, 10:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Powell | 22 min |
| May 28, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fleming, Nicholas | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Estill | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Menifee | 31 min |
| May 28, 10:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 23 min |
| May 28, 10:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 33 min |
| May 28, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski | 46 min |
| May 28, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 42 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.