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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 270, NWS Louisville, KY

July 2, 1996Mercer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 9:16 PM EDT for Mercer 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

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 2, 1996, 9:16 PM EDT (01:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Mercer County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 242 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 793 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 00:00Z on 1996-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
793 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Jul 2, 8:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin, Larue35 min
Jul 2, 8:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry32 min
Jul 2, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin, Scott, Woodford40 min
Jul 2, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson40 min
Jul 2, 8:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin50 min
Jul 2, 9:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKOhio44 min
Jul 2, 9:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGrayson25 min
Jul 2, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln45 min
Jul 2, 9:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEstill, Madison49 min
Jul 2, 9:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRockcastle49 min
Jul 2, 10:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair, Casey, Russell38 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.