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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Louisville, KY

April 29, 1996Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 29, 1996, 2:26 PM EDT for Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky; Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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
Apr 29, 1996, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 1996, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Harrison County, IN, Hardin County, KY, Meade County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 204 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1996-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 169 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-103 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
227 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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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
Apr 29, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Oldham27 min
Apr 29, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHenry30 min
Apr 29, 4:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen28 min
Apr 29, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKNicholas13 min
Apr 29, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMarion, Taylor14 min
Apr 29, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMonroe33 min
Apr 29, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMercer, Washington36 min
Apr 29, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWoodford26 min
Apr 29, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAdair, Casey26 min
Apr 29, 6:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison31 min
Apr 28, 11:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington4 hr
Apr 28, 11:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKScott4 hr
Apr 29, 1:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson3 hr
Apr 29, 2:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry75 min
Apr 29, 7:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Jefferson, Scott4 hr
Apr 29, 7:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKCrawford, Floyd, Harrison, Washington4 hr
Apr 29, 7:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKDubois, Orange4 hr
Apr 29, 7:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKPerry4 hr
Apr 29, 3:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKJefferson2 hr

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.