Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 5, 1996, 4:46 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 14 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, 4:46 PM CDT (21:46 UTC)
- Expired
- May 5, 1996, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 14 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Breckinridge County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 052147 TORSDF KYC027-052200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 546 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...EASTERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY AT 545 PM EDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 6 MILES EAST OF HARDINSBURG WHICH IS 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT GARFIELD AND HENSLEY BEFORE 600 PM 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. WHW/VLD
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 CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson, Washington | 31 min |
| May 5, 1:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 37 min |
| May 5, 1:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 39 min |
| May 5, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Mercer, Washington | 44 min |
| May 5, 1:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson, Woodford | 35 min |
| May 5, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 29 min |
| May 5, 1:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 26 min |
| May 5, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette | 35 min |
| May 5, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Scott | 39 min |
| May 5, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 32 min |
| May 5, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 32 min |
| May 5, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 38 min |
| May 5, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 34 min |
| May 5, 3:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 39 min |
| May 5, 3:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 35 min |
| May 5, 3:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Madison | 20 min |
| May 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Estill | 50 min |
| May 5, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Hancock, Ohio | 61 min |
| May 5, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 61 min |
| May 5, 3:51 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 69 min |
| May 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rowan | 33 min |
| May 5, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Shelby | 41 min |
| May 5, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 64 min |
| May 5, 4:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Edmonson, Grayson | 64 min |
| May 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine, Scott, Woodford | 115 min |
| May 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 115 min |
| May 5, 4:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 115 min |
| May 5, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 63 min |
| May 5, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 53 min |
| May 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby | 90 min |
| May 5, 5:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 27 min |
| May 5, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 23 min |
| May 5, 5:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 23 min |
| May 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion, Taylor | 45 min |
| May 5, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 45 min |
| May 5, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 25 min |
| May 5, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 25 min |
| May 5, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby | 35 min |
| May 5, 5:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer, Washington | 48 min |
| May 5, 5:37 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 68 min |
| May 5, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham | 68 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby, Woodford | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Shelby, Woodford | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 52 min |
| May 5, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Scott | 43 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Montgomery | 61 min |
| May 5, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Montgomery | 61 min |
| May 5, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison | 40 min |
| May 5, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Estill, Menifee, Powell | 44 min |
| May 5, 6:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bath, Nicholas | 53 min |
| May 5, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fleming, Rowan | 61 min |
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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.