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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

May 3, 1996Jefferson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 3, 1996, 11:57 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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, 11:57 PM EDT (03:57 UTC)
Expired: May 4, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:57 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 040358
TORSDF
KYC111-040430-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1157 PM EDT FRI MAY 3 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1230 AM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
AT 1155 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF
DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE.
 
THE SEVERE STORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST/
NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE
AND NEAR FERN CREEK BY 1215 AM EDT.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STPURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
 
STUREY

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 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, 1:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Estill, Madison, Montgomery, Powell	45 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

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.