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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 332, NWS Louisville, KY

November 7, 1996Russell County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 3:09 PM CST for Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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: Nov 7, 1996, 3:09 PM CST (21:09 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1996, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Russell County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 168 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 494 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.

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

Local storm report, Nov 7, 2:12 PM CST, 57 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
310 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....             ...REMARKS...

130 PM CST                             KY       POWER LINES AND TREES
11/7/96         WARREN                          BLOWN DOWN NUMEROUS
                                                LOCATIONS IN COUNTY.
                                                REPORTED BY SHERIFF
                                                DEPT.

SCHOLZ

Local storm report, Nov 7, 2:30 PM CST, 39 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
330 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....             ...REMARKS...

205 PM CST      HORSE CAVE             KY       POWER LINES AND TREES
11/7/96         HART                            BLOWN DOWN.
                                                REPORTED BY DES.

205 PM CST      MUNFORDVILLE           KY       POWER LINES AND TREES
11/7/96         HART                            BLOWN DOWN.
                                                REPORTED BY DES.

205 PM CST      HARDYVILLE             KY       BARN BLOWN OVER.
11/7/96         HART                            REPORTED BY DES.

210 PM CST      CAVE CITY              KY       TREES BLOWN DOWN.
11/7/96         BARREN                          REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

SCHOLZ

Local storm report, Nov 7, 2:31 PM CST, 38 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
330 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....             ...REMARKS...

205 PM CST      HORSE CAVE             KY       POWER LINES AND TREES
11/7/96         HART                            BLOWN DOWN.
                                                REPORTED BY DES.

205 PM CST      MUNFORDVILLE           KY       POWER LINES AND TREES
11/7/96         HART                            BLOWN DOWN.
                                                REPORTED BY DES.

205 PM CST      HARDYVILLE             KY       BARN BLOWN OVER.
11/7/96         HART              B              REPORTED BY DES.

210 PM CST      CAVE CITY              KY       TREES BLOWN DOWN.
11/7/96         BARREN                          REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

SCHOLZ

Local storm report, Nov 7, 2:40 PM CST, 29 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
340 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....             ...REMARKS...

235 PM CST      CLARK                  IN       NUMEROUS TREES AND A
11/7/96         CLARKSVILLE                     POWER LINE BLOWN DOWN
                                                REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

245 PM CST      NEW ALBANY             IN       POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN
11/7/96         FLOYD                           REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

SCHOLZ

Local storm report, Nov 7, 2:42 PM CST, 27 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
340 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE       ....COUNTY LOCATION....             ...REMARKS...

235 PM CST      CLARK                  IN       NUMEROUS TREES AND A
11/7/96         CLARKSVILLE                     POWER LINE BLOWN DOWN
                                                REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

245 PM CST      NEW ALBANY         b    IN       POWER LINES BLOWN DOWN
11/7/96         FLOYD                           REPORTED BY SPOTTER.

SCHOLZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 12:38 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	37 min
Nov 7, 12:43 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	32 min
Nov 7, 12:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	37 min
Nov 7, 12:56 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	34 min
Nov 7, 1:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	38 min
Nov 7, 1:27 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Warren	33 min
Nov 7, 1:33 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	42 min
Nov 7, 1:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	38 min
Nov 7, 1:40 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	35 min
Nov 7, 2:00 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	30 min
Nov 7, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	27 min
Nov 7, 2:03 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	27 min
Nov 7, 2:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	32 min
Nov 7, 2:23 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	37 min
Nov 7, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby, Spencer	31 min
Nov 7, 2:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	31 min
Nov 7, 2:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	26 min
Nov 7, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Mercer	39 min
Nov 7, 2:36 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	39 min
Nov 7, 2:45 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	30 min
Nov 7, 2:51 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott, Woodford	39 min
Nov 7, 2:53 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe	37 min
Nov 7, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	38 min
Nov 7, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine	38 min
Nov 7, 3:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	38 min
Nov 7, 3:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jessamine	13 min
Nov 7, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	49 min
Nov 7, 3:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	49 min
Nov 7, 12:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange, Washington	46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.