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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Louisville, KY

May 4, 1996Shelby County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 12:09 AM EDT for Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 min. 2 reports 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 4, 1996, 12:09 AM EDT (04:09 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1996, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Shelby County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:12 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 4, 12:30 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Shelbyville, KY
May 4, 12:40 AM EDT	Hail 0.75	Waddy, KY

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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1273 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, May 3, 10:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1035PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1996

TIME(EDT)  LOCATION...               ST   EVENT...
DATE       COUNTY...                      REMARKS...

945 PM     HOLLAND                   KY   3/4 INCH HAIL
5/4/96     DUBOIS

1002 PM    HUNTINGBURG               IN   3/4 INCH HAIL
5/4/96     DUBOIS

CMC

Local storm report, May 3, 10:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1051PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1996

TIME(EDT)  LOCATION...               ST   EVENT...
DATE       COUNTY...                      REMARKS...

1030 PM    WEST FORK                 IN   3/4 INCH HAIL
5/4/96     CRAWFORD

1045 PM    3 MI W OF AUSTIN          IN   1 INCH HAIL
5/4/96     SCOTT

CMC

Local storm report, May 3, 11:32 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1130PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1996

TIME(EDT)  LOCATION...               ST   EVENT...
DATE       COUNTY...                      REMARKS...

1120 PM    RAMSEY                    IN   1 INCH HAIL
5/4/96     HARRISON

CMC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 3, 11:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	50 min
May 3, 11:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	33 min
May 4, 12:04 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Spencer	41 min
May 4, 12:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt	17 min
May 4, 12:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bath, Menifee, Montgomery	61 min
May 4, 12:26 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Spencer	34 min
May 4, 12:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Powell	60 min
May 4, 12:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Harrison, Scott	53 min
May 4, 12:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	46 min
May 4, 12:50 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Franklin	40 min
May 4, 12:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford	47 min
May 4, 1:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	40 min
May 4, 1:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Estill, Madison, Montgomery, Powell	45 min
May 4, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	47 min
May 4, 4:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fleming, Nicholas	37 min
May 4, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Rowan	23 min
May 3, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	40 min
May 3, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	44 min
May 3, 10:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Perry	30 min
May 3, 10:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	36 min
May 3, 10:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	35 min
May 3, 10:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	42 min
May 3, 11:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	49 min
May 3, 11:47 PM EDT	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.