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Tornado Warning 59, NWS Louisville, KY

November 7, 1996Marion County, Taylor County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1996, 3:13 PM EST for Marion County, Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Nov 7, 1996, 3:13 PM EST (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1996, 3:45 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Marion County, KY, Taylor County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Nov 7, 3:40 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Northeastern Part, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 429 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 494 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

725 
WFUS1 KSDF 072015 RRA
TORSDF
KYC155-217-072045-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
313 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...MARION COUNTY...TAYLOR COUNTY
 
AT 310 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH POSSIBLE TORNADOES ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHWEST
OF SOMERSET. THE LINE IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL REACH
LEBANON AND CAMPBELLSVILLE AROUND 330 PM EST. TAKE COVER NOW.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF
THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF AVAILABLE. OTHERWISE
...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID
WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING
OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT. STAY AWAY FROM DOWNED POWER LINES.
 
FUNK

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, Nov 7, 3:12 PM EST, 1 minute before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
310 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

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

130 PM CST                             KY       POWER LINES AND TREES
11/7/96         WARREN                          BLOWN DOWN NUMEROUS
                                                LOCATIONS IN COUNTY.
                                                REPORTED BY SHERIFF
                                                DEPT.

SCHOLZ

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 7, 1:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	37 min
Nov 7, 1:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	32 min
Nov 7, 1:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Meade	37 min
Nov 7, 1:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson, Warren	34 min
Nov 7, 2:22 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	38 min
Nov 7, 2:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen, Warren	33 min
Nov 7, 2:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	42 min
Nov 7, 2:37 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	38 min
Nov 7, 2:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Hart	35 min
Nov 7, 3:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue, Nelson	30 min
Nov 7, 3:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	27 min
Nov 7, 3:03 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	27 min
Nov 7, 3:23 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	37 min
Nov 7, 3:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Henry, Shelby, Spencer	31 min
Nov 7, 3:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Nelson	31 min
Nov 7, 3:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Monroe	26 min
Nov 7, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson, Franklin, Mercer	39 min
Nov 7, 3:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle	39 min
Nov 7, 3:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Casey	30 min
Nov 7, 3:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Scott, Woodford	39 min
Nov 7, 3:53 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe	37 min
Nov 7, 4:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	38 min
Nov 7, 4:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette, Garrard, Jessamine	38 min
Nov 7, 4:07 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	38 min
Nov 7, 4:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	36 min
Nov 7, 4:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jessamine	13 min
Nov 7, 4:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark, Madison	49 min
Nov 7, 4:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bourbon, Nicholas	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.