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Tornado Warning 40, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 6, 1990Daviess County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this tornado warning at Jun 6, 1990, 2:14 PM CDT for Daviess County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 min. 2 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: Jun 6, 1990, 2:14 PM CDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 6, 1990, 3:00 PM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Daviess 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
Jun 6, 2:20 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Daviess, KY
Jun 6, 2:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Daviess, 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 154 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -506 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1005 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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.

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 061915
TOREVV
KYC059-062000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
214 PM CDT WED JUN 6 1990
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  300 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
          ...DAVIESS
 
AT 212 PM CDT A HAM RADIO OPERATOR REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND IN
ZION KENTUCKY IN HENDERSON COUNTY...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
EVANSVILLE. IT WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. IT SHOULD MOVE TO NEAR
OWENSBORO KENTUCKY BY ABOUT 235 PM CDT.
 
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.
BLOCK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Union	63 min
Jun 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Henderson	63 min
Jun 6, 2:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Hancock	46 min
Jun 6, 3:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Grayson	44 min
Jun 6, 4:13 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Logan, Todd	32 min
Jun 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	IND	Logan, Simpson	26 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.