Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 334, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 4:26 PM EST for Bourbon County, Nicholas 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
- Nov 7, 1996, 4:26 PM EST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1996, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bourbon County, KY, Nicholas County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 714 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 352 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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
Local storm report, Nov 7, 3:30 PM EST, 56 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.
SCHOLZLocal storm report, Nov 7, 3:31 PM EST, 55 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.
SCHOLZLocal storm report, Nov 7, 3:40 PM EST, 46 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.
SCHOLZLocal storm report, Nov 7, 3:42 PM EST, 44 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.
SCHOLZLocal storm report, Nov 7, 4:12 PM EST, 14 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 412 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 320 PM EST HODGENVILLE KY BARN ROOF BLOWN OFF 11/7/96 LARUE VLD
Local storm report, Nov 7, 4:14 PM EST, 12 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 412 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996 TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 320 PM EST HODGENVILLE KY BARN ROOF BLOWN OFF 11/7/96 LARUE VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 1:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 1:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 32 min |
| Nov 7, 1:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 2:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 38 min |
| Nov 7, 2:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Warren | 33 min |
| Nov 7, 2:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 42 min |
| Nov 7, 2:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Nov 7, 2:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart | 35 min |
| Nov 7, 3:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 30 min |
| Nov 7, 3:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 27 min |
| Nov 7, 3:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 27 min |
| Nov 7, 3:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 32 min |
| Nov 7, 3:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 3:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby, Spencer | 31 min |
| Nov 7, 3:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 31 min |
| Nov 7, 3:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 26 min |
| Nov 7, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin, Mercer | 39 min |
| Nov 7, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 39 min |
| Nov 7, 3:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey | 30 min |
| Nov 7, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 39 min |
| Nov 7, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Metcalfe | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 38 min |
| Nov 7, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine | 38 min |
| Nov 7, 4:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Nov 7, 4:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 36 min |
| Nov 7, 4:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 13 min |
| Nov 7, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 49 min |
| Nov 7, 1:14 PM EST | 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.