Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1990
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 16, 1990, 9:13 PM CDT for Hopkins County, McLean County, Webster County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 min. 3 reports 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
- May 16, 1990, 9:13 PM CDT (02:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 1990, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 9:18 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Mclean, KY | |
| May 16, 9:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Webster, KY | |
| May 16, 9:25 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 0 | Hopkins, 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. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 1794 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 878 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.7
- Supercell composite
- 14.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KEVV 170213 RRA
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KYC107-149-233-170300-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
913 PM CDT WED MAY 16 1990
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
...HOPKINS...MCLEAN...WEBSTER
AT 910 PM CDT RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLAY KENTUCKY...
40 MILES SOUTH OF EVANSVILLE. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. IT WILL
MOVE THROUGH DIXON KENTUCKY BY 915 PM...PROVIDENCE BY 920 PM AND
CALHOUN KENTUCKY BY 945 PM CDT.
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
BLOCKWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 16, 4:11 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 410 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 MAY 16TH STORM DAMAGE...LATE REPORT JST BEFORE 5AM...6 MILES SOUTH OF TRAFALGAR IN..11/2 MILES NORTH OF THE JOHNSON/BROWN COUNTY LINE..AT LAMB LAKE. LOUD ROAR...FELT LARGE PRESSURE CHANGE..HAD SEVERAL WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF HOUSE. NUMEROUS 3 TO 4 FOOT DIAMETER TREES UPROOTED. TOPS OF SEVERAL LARGE TREES HAD TOPS TWISTED OFF ABOUT 35 FT ABOVE THE GROUND. GRAY
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:47 PM CDT, 4 hours 26 minutes before
INZ011>015-162145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 545 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 IN INDIANA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 248 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST AND INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF CINCINNATI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...BLOOMINGTON...VINCENNES... EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS...MADISON...SALEM AND JASPER. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 4:55 PM CDT, 4 hours 18 minutes before
INZ011>015-162145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TIME IN HEADER... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 445 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 IN INDIANA THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 248 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EST AND INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF TERRE HAUTE TO 10 MILES NORTH OF CINCINNATI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...BLOOMINGTON...VINCENNES... EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS...MADISON...SALEM AND JASPER. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 5:36 PM CDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
INZ011>015-162330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 535 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA FOR TONIGHT. AT 530 PM EST...SHOWERS WERE MOVING INTO WEST CENTRAL INDIANA...BETWEEN TERRE HAUTE AND LINTON. THEY WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. FARTHER SOUTH...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL WERE OCCURRING OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN INDIANA. THE STORMS WERE SOUTH OF A LINE FROM VINCENNES TO MADISON. VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS FALLING OVER EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE K%ENTUCKY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. GRAY
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:21 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
INZ011>015-170200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 817 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 THE TORNADO WATCH 251 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING AND INCLUDES THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 30 MILES WEST OF CINCINNATI. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE...VINCENNES...EVANSVILLE...JASPER ...SALEM...MADISON AND BEDFORD. REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TORNADOES AS WELL AS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THE WATCH AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS ANDS POSSIBLE WARNINGS. THIS TORNAD7O WATCH 251 REPLACED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 248 ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. KOLDITZ
Special weather statement, May 16, 8:45 PM CDT, 28 minutes before
INZ011>015-170300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA 845 PM EST WED MAY 16 1990 TORNADO WATCH 251 IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EST THURSDAY MORNING FOR THE SOUTHERN THIRD OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 20 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 30 MILES WEST OF CINCINNATI. AT 830 PM EST THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH THE SOUTH HALF OF INDIANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE GENERALLY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND ALSO JUST NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WAS ISSUED FOR WARRICK COUNTY IN SOUTHWEST INDIANA AND VALID UNTIL 9 PM EST. TORRENTIAL RAINS WERE ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS. ROADS...UNDER- PASSES...SMALL CREEKS AND DITCHES WERE FLOODING IN oSOUTHERN INDIANA. PERSONS IN SOUTHERN INDIANA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS. MOVE TO A SAFE PLACE WHEN SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES. KOLDITZ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Henderson | 51 min |
| May 16, 9:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Ohio | 47 min |
| May 16, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Edmonson, Hart | 52 min |
| May 16, 10:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Logan, Todd, Warren | 52 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.