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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 232, NWS Louisville, KY

June 3, 1996Henry County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1996, 5:33 PM EDT for Henry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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
Jun 3, 1996, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Henry County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 158 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -16 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge26 min
Jun 3, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson48 min
Jun 3, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hardin, Meade41 min
Jun 3, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Larue34 min
Jun 3, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson42 min
Jun 3, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin, Larue33 min
Jun 3, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler, Edmonson, Grayson48 min
Jun 3, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNelson28 min
Jun 3, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington41 min
Jun 3, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKSpencer41 min
Jun 3, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTaylor29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 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.