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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 20, 1996, 12:17 AM EST for Perry County, Indiana; Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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
- Apr 20, 1996, 12:17 AM EST (05:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 1:00 AM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Perry County, IN, Hancock County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 689 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -183 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 163 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 200518 TORSDF INC123-KYC091-200600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 117 AM EDT (1217 AM EST) SAT APR 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EDT (100 AM EST/CDT) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...PERRY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...NORTHERN HANCOCK COUNTY AT 1215 AM EST/CDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF TELL CITY OR 50 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL REACH TELL CITY AND HAWESVILLE AND LEOPOLD BETWEEN 1230 AND 1245 EST/CDT. 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. RNK
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
Special weather statement, Apr 19, 10:12 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes before
INZ090>092-KYZ001>100-104-106>120-200900- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR KENTUCKY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1100 PM EDT FRI APR 19 1996 ...SIGNIFICANT OUTBREAK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND TORNADOES EXPECTED ACROSS WEST AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY... A STRONG LOW PRESSURE STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY TO THE GREAT LAKES BY SATURDAY MORNING. AT THE SAME TIME...A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP EASTWARD ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WARM...MOIST...VERY UNSTABLE AIR...AND STRONG WIND FIELDS IN THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE IN PLACE ACROSS WESTERN AND NORTHERN KENTUCKY AS WELL AS MUCH OF ILLINOIS AND INDIANA. AS THE FRONT MOVED INTO THIS AREA...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED THIS EVENING ACROSS MISSOURI...ILLINOIS...AND INDIANA. > GIVEN THE STRENGTH OF THE STORM SYSTEM AND EXPECTED INSTABILITY... SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING SURFACE WINDS...AND TORNADOES. STAY :TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS REQUESTED IN THOSE AREAS COVERED BY TORNADO WATCHES. RNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 11:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 54 min |
| Apr 19, 11:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 52 min |
| Apr 19, 11:51 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Orange | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 12:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 12:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 12:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 12:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 12:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 12:58 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 1:04 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Floyd | 26 min |
| Apr 20, 1:14 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 1:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Hardin, Jefferson | 56 min |
| Apr 20, 1:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 1:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 45 min |
| Apr 20, 1:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 53 min |
| Apr 20, 2:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 2:19 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson, Washington | 41 min |
| Apr 20, 2:28 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 2:37 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 38 min |
| Apr 20, 2:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 48 min |
| Apr 20, 3:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Harrison | 44 min |
| Apr 20, 3:10 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Hart | 35 min |
| Apr 20, 3:16 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 29 min |
| Apr 20, 3:29 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green | 31 min |
| Apr 20, 3:35 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion | 40 min |
| Apr 20, 3:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 3:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Casey | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 3:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 49 min |
| Apr 20, 4:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 4:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 4:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln, Pulaski, Russell | 61 min |
| Apr 20, 4:28 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Wayne | 47 min |
| Apr 20, 4:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette, Madison, Rockcastle | 43 min |
| Apr 20, 4:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Madison | 24 min |
| Apr 20, 4:40 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Estill, Powell | 50 min |
| Apr 20, 4:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Montgomery | 39 min |
| Apr 20, 4:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel | 51 min |
| Apr 20, 5:08 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | McCreary | 37 min |
| Apr 20, 5:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Menifee | 34 min |
| Apr 20, 5:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Menifee | 24 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.