Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
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.
- 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
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 &
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
CALLAHANLocal 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
CALLAHANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 27, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 34 min |
| Feb 27, 6:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 30 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.