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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 286, NWS Louisville, KY

July 21, 1996Monroe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1996, 4:56 PM CDT for Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 49 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 21, 1996, 4:56 PM CDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 1996, 5:45 PM CDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Monroe County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 388 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1498 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 1996-07-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -76 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
1498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 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
Jul 21, 2:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHardin39 min
Jul 21, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson35 min
Jul 21, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Hart39 min
Jul 21, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBullitt, Spencer50 min
Jul 21, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen, Metcalfe41 min
Jul 21, 4:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair42 min
Jul 21, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle, Casey, Lincoln30 min
Jul 21, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLaurel16 min
Jul 21, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFloyd33 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.