Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 34, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 5:17 PM CDT for Butler County, Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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, 5:17 PM CDT (22:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 6:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KY, Logan County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 282217 TORSDF KYC031-141-282300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 617 PM EDT (517 PM CDT) TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT (600 PM CDT) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY...NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY AT 515 PM CDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 25 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN NEAR THE TOWN OF PENROD IN MUHLENBERG COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT QUALITY BY 535 PM CDT...AND SUGAR GROVER AND ANDERSON BY 550 PM CDT. TAKE COVER NOW IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. 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 BLAnNKETS...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, 4:53 PM CDT, 24 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
JALocal storm report, May 28, 5:14 PM CDT, 3 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
615 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...j
600 PM EDT IN FIRE FIGHTER REPORTED A
5/28/96 HARRISON TORNADO IN SOUTHWEST HARRISON
COUNTY.
JAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 9:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Estill, Powell | 119 min |
| May 28, 9:41 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Montgomery | 119 min |
| May 28, 5:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 69 min |
| May 28, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 46 min |
| May 28, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Warren | 48 min |
| May 28, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Spencer | 45 min |
| May 28, 6:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 29 min |
| May 28, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 41 min |
| May 28, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 47 min |
| May 28, 6:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 44 min |
| May 28, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Shelby | 20 min |
| May 28, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 38 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.