Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1991
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jul 8, 1991, 7:40 PM EDT for Garrard County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 1991, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 1991, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Garrard County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 1405 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLEX 082341 TORLEX KYC079-151-090030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 740 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... S... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...GARRARD COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY AT 738PM SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTED A TORNADO ON THE GROUND NEAR CARTERSVILLE IN EASTERN GARRARD COUNTY 22 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON KENTUCKY. THIS TORNADO IS MOVING EAST TOWARD BEREA IN MADISON COUNTY 27 MILES SOUTHEAST OF LEXINGTON. THE TORNADO DAMAGED ONE SPOTTERS HOME. 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.
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
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 4:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
KYZ007-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 445PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... AT 445PM EDT RADAR WAS SHOWING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING AND MOVING SOUTH INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS OVER EASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING WILL AUCCOMPANY STORMS AS THEY MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING. WINDS MAY BECOME STRONG IN AND NEAR ANY STORMS.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
KYZ004-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 505 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 500 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNNERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE...NEAR PALMYRA INDIANA IN NORTHERN HARRISON COUNTY. MARBLE SIZE HAIL AND 40 TO 50 MPH WINDS HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS nMOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND ITS TRACK WILL TAKE IT NEAR CORYDON INDIANA BY 515 PM EDT AND INTO SOUTHERN HARRISON COUTY BY 425 PM EDT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS. KIRKPATRICK
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
KYZ007-082145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 515PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... AT 515PM EDT NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY. STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY 15 TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON AND OVER EASTERN ANDERSON COUNTY 22 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON. STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MILES PRODUCING SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND RESULTING IN STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOWER LYING AREAS. HEAVY RAIN IN THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY AND HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
KYZ007-082145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 515PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10PM EDT... AT 515PM EDT NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY. STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY 15 TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON AND OVER WESTERN ANDERSON COUNTY 22 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON. STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. PRODUCING SOME VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND RESULTING IN STANDING WATER ON ROADWAYS AND IN LOWER LYING AREAS. HEAVY RAIN IN THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE FLASH FLOODING. BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY AND HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENING WEATHER IS SIGHTED.
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 5:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before
KYZ004-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 525 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 525 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDER STORMS APPROACHING LOUISVILLE AS WELL AS THE KENTUCKY COUNTIES BORDERING THE OHIO RIVER...INCLUDING MEADE...JEFFERSON...OLDHAM AND TRIMBLE. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING EAST AND SOUTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE OVER PARTS OF SPENCER...SHELBY AND HENRY COUNTIES. ALL THE STORMS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS. KIRKPATRICK
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 7:13 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
KYZ004-080015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 710 PM EDT MON JUL 8 1991 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 10 PM EDT FOR SOUTHERN INDIANA AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 700 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDER STORMS 30 TO 40 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE IN THE BARDTOWN VICINITY OF NELSON COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED 30 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE OVER NORTHERN PARTS OF MEADE AND BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES. ALL THE STORMS WILL MOVE SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AND PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN... DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THESE STORMS. KIRKPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 54 min |
| Jul 8, 5:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Trimble | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Mercer, Woodford | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Woodford | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 6:03 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Jessamine | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 6:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel, Rockcastle | 36 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.