Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 23, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1996, 4:18 PM EST for Scott County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 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 8, 1996, 4:18 PM EST (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scott County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:22 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 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 611 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 082120 TORSDF INC143-082145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 518 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT (445 PM EST) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...SCOTT COUNTY AT 515 PM EDT (415 PM EST)....WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR THE WASHINGTON/SCOTT COUNTY LINE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA OR 25 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH ARE SCOTTSBURG AND LEXINGTON. 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. FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 8, 6:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 73 min |
| May 8, 6:47 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 58 min |
| May 8, 8:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 3 hr |
| May 8, 8:43 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Scott, Washington | 62 min |
| May 8, 9:46 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 85 min |
| May 8, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 54 min |
| May 8, 3:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 54 min |
| May 8, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 50 min |
| May 8, 4:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 17 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.