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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Louisville, KY

May 3, 1996Crawford County, Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1996, 9:01 PM EST for Crawford County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 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, 9:01 PM EST (02:01 UTC)
Expired
May 3, 1996, 9:45 PM EST
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IN, Perry County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:02 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 3, 9:30 PM ESTHail 0.75West Fork, 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 229 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 821 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
2.9

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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
May 3, 10:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson50 min
May 3, 10:57 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKJefferson33 min
May 3, 11:04 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKSpencer41 min
May 3, 11:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKShelby51 min
May 3, 11:13 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKBullitt17 min
May 3, 11:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBath, Menifee, Montgomery61 min
May 3, 11:26 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKSpencer34 min
May 3, 11:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Powell60 min
May 3, 11:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBourbon, Harrison, Scott53 min
May 3, 11:44 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson46 min
May 3, 11:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin40 min
May 3, 11:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette, Jessamine, Woodford47 min
May 4, 12:05 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMercer40 min
May 4, 12:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark, Estill, Madison, Montgomery, Powell45 min
May 4, 3:28 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison47 min
May 4, 3:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFleming, Nicholas37 min
May 4, 4:37 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKRowan23 min
May 3, 8:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois40 min
May 3, 9:15 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKPerry30 min
May 3, 9:24 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKWashington36 min
May 3, 9:40 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKScott35 min
May 3, 9:48 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison42 min
May 3, 10:41 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKFloyd, Harrison49 min
May 3, 10:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark43 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.