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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Louisville, KY

May 4, 19965 counties in Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 1996, 1:30 AM EDT for 5 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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: May 4, 1996, 1:30 AM EDT (05:30 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1996, 2:15 AM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clark County, KY, Estill County, KY, Madison County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, 2 hours 55 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, 2 hours 35 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, 1 hour 58 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

Local storm report, May 4, 12:36 AM EDT, 54 minutes before

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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, 12:09 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	51 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.