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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY

February 27, 1996Clark County, Scott County, Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 27, 1996, 5:28 PM EST for Clark County, Scott County, Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 32 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
Feb 27, 1996, 5:28 PM EST (22:28 UTC)
Expired
Feb 27, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Clark County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:28 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-02-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 341 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 214 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
341 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
521 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
214 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 272230 RRA
SVRSDF
INC019-143-175-272300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
528 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY...SCOTT COUNTY
   ...EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 5:25 PM EST...RADAR DETECTED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
NEAR SALEM...30 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS IN
SALEM.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH SCOTTSBURG INDIANA BY 5:45 PM EST AND
MARYSVILLE IN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA BY 5:45 PM.
 
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
MT/WHW
 
 
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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, Feb 27, 5:23 PM EST, 5 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
523 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

523 EST    SALEM                      IN      DIME SIZE HAIL
           WASHINGTON IN

CALLAHAN
Local storm report, Feb 27, 5:25 PM EST, 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
523 PM EST TUE FEB 27 1996

TIME EDT   .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

523 EST    SALEM                      IN      DIME SIZE HAIL
           WASHINGTON IN

CALLAHAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 27, 5:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Harrison34 min
Feb 27, 6:00 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.