Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 24, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 8, 1996, 4:28 PM EST for Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 17 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, 4:28 PM EST (21:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 8, 1996, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, IN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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 082130 TORSDF INC077-082145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 528 PM EDT WED MAY 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 525 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR BELLEVIEW IN NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH INCLUDE CHINA AND CANAAN. 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, 4:18 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Scott | 27 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 |
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.