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Tornado Warning 26, NWS Louisville, KY

May 24, 1996Spencer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 24, 1996, 9:36 PM EDT for Spencer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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 24, 1996, 9:36 PM EDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 1996, 10:00 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Spencer County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 648 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 250133
TORSDF
KYC215-250215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
936 PM EDT FRI MAY 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...EASTERN SPENCER COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO JUST TO THE NORTH OF
THE CITY OF TAYLORSVILLE...26 ESE OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. THE TORNADO
WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
 
RESIDENTS SHOULD TAKE COVER NOW.
 
 
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/LD

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 24, 9:32 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
933 PM EDT FRI MAY 25 1996

TIME(EDT)  LOCATION...               ST   EVENT...
DATE       COUNTY...                      REMARKS...

2000       NEAR PAOLI                IN   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN DUE
5/25/96   ORANGE COUNTY                   TO HIGH WINDS. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

2017       CRAWFORD COUNTY           IN   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
5/25/96                                   REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

2023       LEAVENWORTH               IN   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
5/25/96    CRAWFORD                       REPORTED BY DISPATCH.

2030       NEAR CORYDON              IN   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN DUE TO
5/25/96    HARRISON                       HIGH WINDS. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

2030       NEAR SALEM                IN   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN DUE TO
5/25/96    WASHINGTON                     HIGH WINDS. REPORTED BY
                                          DISPATCH.

2045       NEW ALBANY                IN   NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ON
5/25/96    FLOYD COUNTY                   CARS AND HOUSES. REPORTED
                                          BY TRAINED SPOTTER.

2050       BLOTCHER                  IN    TORNADO REPORTED
5/25/96    SCOTT COUNTY                    BY FIRE DEPARTMENT.

2114       WEST POINT                KY    NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
5/25/96    JEFFERSON COUNTY                REPORTED BY WEST POINT

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	44 min
May 24, 8:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Menifee, Powell	36 min
May 24, 9:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	23 min
May 24, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Estill, Powell	33 min
May 24, 9:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	45 min
May 24, 9:54 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Larue	36 min
May 24, 10:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Mercer	29 min
May 24, 10:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	41 min
May 24, 10:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	51 min
May 24, 10:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	26 min
May 24, 10:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jessamine	29 min
May 24, 10:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Estill	37 min
May 24, 10:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bath	27 min
May 24, 11:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	McCreary	28 min
May 24, 11:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Pulaski	25 min
May 24, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Pulaski	31 min
May 24, 11:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Whitley	26 min
May 25, 12:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Whitley	35 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.