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Tornado Warning 11, NWS Louisville, KY

May 3, 1996Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 3, 1996, 9:15 PM EST for Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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 3, 1996, 9:15 PM EST (02:15 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1996, 9:45 PM EST
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Perry County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:17 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 00:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 821 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 270 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 2.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 040217
TORSDF
INC123-040245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1015 PM EDT (915 PM EST) FRI MAY 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT (945 PM EST)
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
 
   ...PERRY COUNTY
 
AT 1010 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO AND A
TORNADO WAS REPORTED 3 MILES NORTH OF SANTA CLAUSE IN PERRY COUNTY. THE
TORNADO WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL PERRY COUNTY. THE STORM IS
MOVING ABOUT 45 MPH.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE
...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID
WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING
OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. STAY AWAY FROM DOWNED POWER LINES.
 
SCHOLZ
 
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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, 8:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	40 min
May 3, 9:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	44 min
May 3, 9:24 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	36 min
May 3, 9:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott	35 min
May 3, 9:48 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	42 min
May 3, 10:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	50 min
May 3, 10:41 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	49 min
May 3, 10:47 PM EST	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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.