Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 18, 1996, 1:29 PM CST for Breckinridge County, Meade County, Kentucky; Crawford County, Indiana. It was in force for 31 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
- Jan 18, 1996, 1:29 PM CST (19:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 18, 1996, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Meade County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 588 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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, Jan 18, 8:10 AM CST, 5 hours 19 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 908 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY... THE SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR EXTREME WESTERN KENTUCKY AS WELL AS SEVERAL SURROUNDING STATES. THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2:00 PM EST (1:OO PM CST). A TORNADO WAS REPORTED IN NORTHEAST ARKANSAS AND WIND DAMAGE WAS REPORTED AROUND JONESBORO ARKANSAS. THIS VERY UNSETTLED WEATHER IS IN ADVANCE OF A STRONG COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN KENTUCKY BY EARLY AFTERNOON. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERICAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMEN TS ON THIS STRONG STORM SYSTEM. AMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 9:35 AM CST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-190000- KENTUCKY SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1035 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AND STRONG WIND FIELDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL BE IN PLACE. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THIS AIR MASS...A PERIOD OF STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE...NUMEROUS STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EAST KENTUCKY LATER THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AS WELL. AFTER THE COLD FRONT PASSES...SHARPLY COLDER AIR AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL SPREAD ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING...AND EAST KENTUCKY OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION OF THIS WEATHER SITUATION. FUNK
Special weather statement, Jan 18, 9:37 AM CST, 3 hours 52 minutes before
KYZ001>100-104-106>120-INZ076>079-084-090>092-190000- KENTUCKY SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1035 AM EST THU JAN 18 1996 ...SIGNIFICANT THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... A POWERFUL COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AND STRONG WIND FIELDS AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT WILL BE IN PLACE. AS THE FRONT MOVES INTO THIS AIR MASS...A PERIOD OF STRONG AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS LIKELY ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. GIVEN THE AMOUNT OF ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE...NUMEROUS STORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG AND DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO EAST KENTUCKY LATER THIS EVENING...AND SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BE STRONG AS WELL. AFTER THE COLD FRONT PASSES...SHARPLY COLDER AIR AND RAPIDLY FALLING TEMPERATURES WILL SPREAD ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON... CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING...AND EAST KENTUCKY OVERNIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION OF THIS WEATHER SITUATION. FUNK
Local storm report, Jan 18, 12:51 PM CST, 38 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 45 min |
| Jan 18, 2:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 50 min |
| Jan 18, 3:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Trimble | 30 min |
| Jan 18, 12:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 45 min |
| Jan 18, 1:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.