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Tornado Warning 33, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 1996Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 5:56 PM EDT for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 34 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 28, 1996, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Harrison County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 234 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: 1 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -254 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1023 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 163 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 282156
TORSDF
INC061-282230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
556 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
 
   ...HARRISON COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM EDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSBILE TORNADO NEAR
LEAVENWORTH WHICH IS 25 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE NEAR CORYDON AND NEW MIDDLETOWN BY 615 PM
EDT. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORTKBENCH 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.
 
 
TF/VLD

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 28, 5:53 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
550 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...H

545 PM EDT                            IN      1.00 INCH HAIL NEAR CAREFREE
5/28/96    CRAWFORD
                                              1.75 INCH HAIL NEAR LEAVENWORTH

JA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 28, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois	34 min
May 28, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Orange	36 min
May 28, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Perry	18 min
May 28, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	36 min
May 28, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	30 min
May 28, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	45 min
May 28, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	69 min
May 28, 7:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Harrison	49 min
May 28, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd	39 min
May 28, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	47 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.