Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 2:42 AM CDT for Edmonson County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report 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
- Apr 20, 1996, 2:42 AM CDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 3:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edmonson County, KY, Warren County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 3:25 AM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Cedar Spg, 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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 10:12 PM CDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before
INZ090>092-KYZ001>100-104-106>120-200900- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR KENTUCKY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1100 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES EXPECTED ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TO THE GREAT LAKES BY SATURDAY MORNING. AT THE SAME TIME...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP EASTWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WARM...MOIST...VERY UNSTABLE AIR...AND STRONG WIND FIELDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE IN PLACE ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AS WELL AS MUCH OF ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. AS THE FRONT MOVED INTO THIS AREA...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS EVENING ACROSS MISSOURI...ILLINOIS...AND INDIANA. > GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE STORM SYSTEM AND EXPECTED INSTABILITY... SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING SURFACE WINDS...AND TORNADOES. STAY :TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED IN THOSE AREAS COVERED BY TORNADO WATCHES. RNK
Local storm report, Apr 20, 12:45 AM CDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
145 AM EDT SAT APR 20 1996
TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
...FOR STORMS THAT OCCURRED SATURDAY EVENING JULY 22ND...
115 AM EDT 5 EAST CAMPBELLSBURG IN GOLFBALL TO BASEBALL
WASHINGTON SIZE HAIL REPORTED
BY THE COUNTY DISPATCHLocal storm report, Apr 20, 1:30 AM CDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 230AM EDT SAT APR 20 1996 TIME(EDT) LOCATION... ST EVENT... DATE COUNTY... REMARKS... P0150 RIDDLE IN MOBILE HOME OVERTURNED 4/20/96 CRAWFORD 0208 FLOYDS KNOBS IN ROOF REMOVED OFF HOUSE 4/20/96 FLOYD NAYDORF RD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 12:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hancock | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 12:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 12:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 1:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson | 56 min |
| Apr 20, 1:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 1:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 2:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson, Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 2:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 38 min |
| Apr 20, 3:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 3:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Hart | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 3:16 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 3:29 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 3:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 3:56 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 4:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln, Pulaski, Russell | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 4:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Wayne | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 4:32 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette, Madison, Rockcastle | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 4:36 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Madison | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 4:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Estill, Powell | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 4:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 4:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | McCreary | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 5:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Menifee | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 5:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Menifee | 24 min |
| Apr 19, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 11:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 12:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 12:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 12:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 1:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Floyd | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 1:14 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark | 31 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.