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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 252, NWS Louisville, KY

June 24, 1996Menifee County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 5:31 PM EDT for Menifee County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1996, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Menifee County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 334 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 743 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
743 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1118 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 242133
SVRSDF
KYC165-242200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
531 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...MENIFEE COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 40 MILES
EAST OF LEXINGTON...SOUTH OF OWINGSVILLE IN SOUTHERN BATH COUNTY. THE
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL CROSS INTO
MENIFEE COUNTY BY 535 PM EDT. THE STORM SHOULD THEN REACH FRENCHBURGH BY
545 PM EDT.
 
TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN RECENTLY IN BATH COUNTY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  GO TO
THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR LOWEST LEVEL
IF POSSIBLE.  DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STO0RM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM
ALL DOWNED WIRES.
 
STUREY
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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.