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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Louisville, KY

May 28, 1996Shelby County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 7:50 PM EDT for Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 20 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, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired
May 28, 1996, 8:10 PM EDT
In force
20 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Shelby County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 160 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
585 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
178 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 282350
TORSDF
KYC211-290010-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
750 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  810 PM EDT
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...SOUTHEASTERN SHELBY COUNTY
 
AT 749 PM EDT...A TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND IN EXTREME NORTHEAST SPENCER
COUNTY WHICH IS 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT SOUTHVILLE AND HARRISONVILLE THROUGH 810
PM EDT.
 
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.
 
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, 6:57 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
655 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

655 PM EDT     MT. WASHINGTON           KY      TORNADO ON GROUND
5/28/96        KENTUCKY

LD
Local storm report, May 28, 7:10 PM EDT, 40 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
705 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

705 PM EDT     JEFFERSON               KY      RO0FS OFF TREES DOWN
5/28/96        KENTUCKY                        TORNADO SIGHTED AT
                                               TIME OF DESTRUCTION
                                        

LD
Local storm report, May 28, 7:16 PM EDT, 34 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
711 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

655 PM EDT     MT WASHINGTON            KY      TREES LINES DOWN
5/28/96        KENTUCKY                        ON HWY 44

LD
Local storm report, May 28, 7:30 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
730 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

730 PM EDT     GREENVILLE              IN      DIME SIZE HAIL
5/28/96        INDIANA

LD
Local storm report, May 28, 7:34 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
735 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

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

735 PM EDT                            KY      GOLFBALL HAIL
5/28/96        SPENCER/ANDERSON               AT COUNTY LINES

LD
Local storm report, May 28, 7:40 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
740 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....    STATE    ...EVENT...
 DATE      ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...4

730 PM EDT     COUNTY WIDE               IN   PEA-GOLFBALL HAIL
5/28/96        CRAWFORD

LD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 28, 10:41 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKEstill, Powell119 min
May 28, 10:41 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKMontgomery119 min
May 28, 6:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan43 min
May 28, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson69 min
May 28, 6:44 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson46 min
May 28, 6:57 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKWarren48 min
May 28, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKSpencer45 min
May 28, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTrimble29 min
May 28, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAnderson41 min
May 28, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKJefferson, Oldham47 min
May 28, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Barren44 min
May 28, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFranklin38 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.