Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 4:19 PM EST for Dubois County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 56 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 5, 1996, 4:19 PM EST (21:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1996, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Dubois County, IN, Perry County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 233 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
- 2308 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.3
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 5, 2:37 PM EST, 1 hour 42 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
335 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996
TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1429 EDT SPRINGFIELD KY QUARTER SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 WASHINGTON DAMAGE TO BARN
AND TWO TRAILOR HOMES
1430 EDT WAKEFIELD KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 SPENCER
1435 EDT KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 ANDERSON REPORTED BY DES
1508 EDT EAST SIDE OF FRANFORT KY 2 INCH HAIL
5/5/96 FRANKLIN REPORTED BY DES
1525 EDT 2 M SOUTH OF HUSTONVILLE KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL
5/5/96 LINCOLN REPORTED BY 911
COXLocal storm report, May 5, 2:52 PM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 350 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1420 EDT KY 1 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 NELSON REPORTED BY DES 1455 EDT NEAR LEXINGTON KY QUARTER SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 FAYETTE REPORTED BY DES 1532 EDT MCKINNEY KY BASEBALL SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 LINCOLN REPORTED BY DES 1540 EDT SE OF SHEPHERDSVILLE KY NICKEL SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 BULLITT * REPORTED BY DISPATCH 1542 EDT HALLS GAP KY 1.75 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 LINCOLN REPORTED BY HAM COX
Local storm report, May 5, 3:43 PM EST, 36 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 442 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1505 EDT KY GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL 5/5/96 ANDERSON REPORTED BY DES 1630 EDT RICHMOND KY 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 MADISON REPORTED BY POLICE COX
Local storm report, May 5, 3:54 PM EST, 25 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 452 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 TIME EDT .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 1605 EDT NEAR HARRISONVILLE KY 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/5/96 SHELBY REPORTED BY POLICE COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 5, 12:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson, Washington | 31 min |
| May 5, 1:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 37 min |
| May 5, 1:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 39 min |
| May 5, 1:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Mercer, Washington | 44 min |
| May 5, 1:40 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson, Woodford | 35 min |
| May 5, 1:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 5, 1:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 26 min |
| May 5, 1:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette | 35 min |
| May 5, 2:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 39 min |
| May 5, 2:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 5, 2:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 32 min |
| May 5, 2:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 38 min |
| May 5, 2:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 34 min |
| May 5, 3:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 39 min |
| May 5, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 35 min |
| May 5, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Madison | 20 min |
| May 5, 3:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Estill | 50 min |
| May 5, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Hancock, Ohio | 61 min |
| May 5, 3:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 61 min |
| May 5, 3:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 69 min |
| May 5, 3:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rowan | 33 min |
| May 5, 4:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Shelby | 41 min |
| May 5, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 64 min |
| May 5, 4:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Edmonson, Grayson | 64 min |
| May 5, 4:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Scott, Woodford | 115 min |
| May 5, 4:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 115 min |
| May 5, 4:35 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 115 min |
| May 5, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 14 min |
| May 5, 4:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 53 min |
| May 5, 5:00 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby | 90 min |
| May 5, 5:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 27 min |
| May 5, 5:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 23 min |
| May 5, 5:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 23 min |
| May 5, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion, Taylor | 45 min |
| May 5, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 45 min |
| May 5, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 25 min |
| May 5, 5:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 25 min |
| May 5, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 35 min |
| May 5, 5:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer, Washington | 48 min |
| May 5, 5:37 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 68 min |
| May 5, 5:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 68 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby, Woodford | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby, Woodford | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 43 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Montgomery | 61 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Montgomery | 61 min |
| May 5, 6:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison | 40 min |
| May 5, 6:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Estill, Menifee, Powell | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bath, Nicholas | 53 min |
| May 5, 6:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fleming, Rowan | 61 min |
| May 5, 4:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford, Dubois, Orange, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 5, 4:15 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 2 hr |
| May 5, 4:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 69 min |
| May 5, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 51 min |
| May 5, 4:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 51 min |
| May 5, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.