Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 8:50 PM EST for Dubois County, Indiana. It was in force for 40 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
- May 3, 1996, 8:50 PM EST (01:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1996, 9:30 PM EST
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dubois County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 9:02 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Huntingburg, IN |
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 248 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
- 2428 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 10:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 50 min |
| May 3, 10:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| May 3, 11:04 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Spencer | 41 min |
| May 3, 11:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 51 min |
| May 3, 11:13 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 17 min |
| May 3, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery | 61 min |
| May 3, 11:26 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Spencer | 34 min |
| May 3, 11:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Powell | 60 min |
| May 3, 11:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Scott | 53 min |
| May 3, 11:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 46 min |
| May 3, 11:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 40 min |
| May 3, 11:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 47 min |
| May 4, 12:05 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 40 min |
| May 4, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Estill, Madison, Montgomery, Powell | 45 min |
| May 4, 3:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 47 min |
| May 4, 3:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fleming, Nicholas | 37 min |
| May 4, 4:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rowan | 23 min |
| May 3, 9:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 44 min |
| May 3, 9:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Perry | 30 min |
| May 3, 9:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 36 min |
| May 3, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 35 min |
| May 3, 9:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 42 min |
| May 3, 10:41 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 49 min |
| May 3, 10:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 43 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.