Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 15, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 4, 1996, 12:13 AM EDT for Bullitt County, Kentucky. It was in force for 17 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 1996, 12:13 AM EDT (04:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 1996, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bullitt County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:17 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 12:20 AM EDT | Hail 1.5 | Mt Washington, KY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 040415 TORSDF KYC029-040430- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1213 AM EDT SAT MAY 4 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 ...NORTHERN BULLITT COUNTY AT 1210 AM EDT...A POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED IN NORTHERN BULLITT COUNTY...JUST NORTHEAST OF MOUNT WASHINGTON. THE SEVERE STORM PRODUCING THE POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL EXIT ALL OF NORTHERN BULLITT COUNTY BY 1230 AM EDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY 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
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 3, 10:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1035PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1996 TIME(EDT) LOCATION... ST EVENT... DATE COUNTY... REMARKS... 945 PM HOLLAND KY 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/4/96 DUBOIS 1002 PM HUNTINGBURG IN 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/4/96 DUBOIS CMC
Local storm report, May 3, 10:55 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1051PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1996 TIME(EDT) LOCATION... ST EVENT... DATE COUNTY... REMARKS... 1030 PM WEST FORK IN 3/4 INCH HAIL 5/4/96 CRAWFORD 1045 PM 3 MI W OF AUSTIN IN 1 INCH HAIL 5/4/96 SCOTT CMC
Local storm report, May 3, 11:32 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1130PM EDT FRI MAY 4 1996 TIME(EDT) LOCATION... ST EVENT... DATE COUNTY... REMARKS... 1120 PM RAMSEY IN 1 INCH HAIL 5/4/96 HARRISON CMC
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 3, 11:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 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, 12:14 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.