Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1996
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 28, 1996, 8:03 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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, 8:03 PM EDT (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 243 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
- 2991 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 989 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 150 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 260 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 4.6
- Supercell composite
- 16.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 290003 TORSDF KYC111-290030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 803 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 802 PM EDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NORTHWEST OF FERN CREEK IN THE HIGHLANDS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AND WILL AFFECT FERN CREEK IMMEDIATELY AND FAIRMOUNT BY 815 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 SfHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS.
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, 1 hour 6 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, 53 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
LDLocal storm report, May 28, 7:16 PM EDT, 47 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, 33 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, 29 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, 23 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 8:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 39 min |
| May 28, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 20 min |
| May 28, 8:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Woodford | 48 min |
| May 28, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 47 min |
| May 28, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Monroe | 43 min |
| May 28, 8:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine | 46 min |
| May 28, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Nelson, Washington | 40 min |
| May 28, 8:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 40 min |
| May 28, 8:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Anderson | 42 min |
| May 28, 8:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 47 min |
| May 28, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford | 27 min |
| May 28, 9:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 39 min |
| May 28, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine, Madison | 49 min |
| May 28, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 43 min |
| May 28, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 43 min |
| May 28, 9:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 38 min |
| May 28, 9:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 35 min |
| May 28, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 30 min |
| May 28, 9:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Lincoln | 40 min |
| May 28, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Estill, Montgomery, Powell | 51 min |
| May 28, 9:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 51 min |
| May 28, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fleming | 50 min |
| May 28, 10:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Estill | 27 min |
| May 28, 10:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Powell | 22 min |
| May 28, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fleming, Nicholas | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark, Estill | 2 hr |
| May 28, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Menifee | 31 min |
| May 28, 10:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 23 min |
| May 28, 10:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 33 min |
| May 28, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Pulaski | 46 min |
| May 28, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 42 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.