Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 22, 1991, 6:30 PM EST for Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 1991, 6:30 PM EST (23:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 1991, 6:50 PM EST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Harrison County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -233 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What 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
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 4:20 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
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KYZ004-009-INZ013-015-230000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 500 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST ACROSS WEST KENTUCKY LATE THIS AFTERNOON. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA BY 6 PM EST. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BEC$OME SEVERE THIS EVENING. A TORNADO WATCH CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HOLDERBACH < HOLDERBACH
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 6:10 PM EST, 20 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ013-015-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 600 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTS OF WIND MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA. THE TUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE 50 MILES SOUTHWEST AND WEST OF LOUISVILLE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST. THE AREA IS ALSO UNDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THE REGION...INCLUDING THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA. THERE WILL BE STRONG GUSTS OF WIND...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS. DRIVING WILL BECOME DANGEROUS AS THE RAIN AND WIND WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHERr RADIO AND LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS FOR WARNINGS. WILSON
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 6:14 PM EST, 16 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ013-015-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 600 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...POSSIBLE HAIL AND STRONG GUSTS OF WIND MOVE INTO NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE TUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WERE 50 MILES SOUTHWEST AND WEST OF LOUISVILLE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 10 PM EST. THE AREA IS ALSO UNDER A FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL MIDNIGHT. AS THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH THE REGION...INCLUDING THE LOUISVILLE METRO AREA. THERE WILL BE STRONG GUSTS OF WIND...SMALL HAIL AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. BE PREPARED TO MOVE INDOORS. DRIVING WILL BECOME DANGEROUS AS THE RAIN AND WIND WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND CAUSE FLOODING OF STREETS. STAY TUuNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS FOR WARNINGS AND FURTHUR STATEMENTS. WILSON
Special weather statement, Mar 22, 6:30 PM EST, 0 minutes before
KYZ007-230100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 630 PM EST FRI MAR 22 1991 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL MIDNIGHT... AT 625 PM EST...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES THE LEADING EDGE OF A LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN NOW ENTERING WESTERN ANDERSON...WESTERN MERCER AND WESTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY. THE AREA IS MOVING RAPIDLY THE EAST AT 50 MPH. OVER THE NEXT ONE TO TWO HOURS THIS AREA WILL OVERSPREAD ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESES STORMS AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY. IF YOU ARE IN A LOW LYING OR FLOOD PRONE AREA...BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. WHEN DRIVING INTO SHOWERS...BE PREPARED TO ENCOUNTER REDICED VISIBILITIES AND PONDING OF WATER OR POSSIBLE FLOODED ROADWAYS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SZAPPANOS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 21, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 62 min |
| Mar 22, 1:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 1:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 2:06 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 39 min |
| Mar 22, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 42 min |
| Mar 22, 2:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 31 min |
| Mar 22, 3:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 3:31 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1991Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991
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.