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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Indianapolis, IN

June 18, 1992Barren County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this flash flood warning at Jun 18, 1992, 5:25 AM CDT for Barren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 5:25 AM CDT (10:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 8:30 AM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Barren County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 2841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.9
Supercell composite: 9.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 181026
FFWEVV
KYC009-181330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
525 AM CDT THU JUN 18 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...BARREN COUNTY
 
AT 520 AM CDT...THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINS WERE MOVING
THROUGH GLASGOW KENTUCKY...AND WILL PRODUCE FLOODING THROUGH THE AREA.
MOVE TO HIGH GROUND IMMEDIATELY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT
AROUND 45 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVE EAST OF BARREN COUNTY BY 630 AM
CDT. THE FLOODING WILL CONTINUE FOR A FEW HOURS BEFORE RECEDING.
 
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY.  THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO
CROSS SAFELY.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE
ABANDONED QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
TT

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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, Jun 18, 3:10 AM CDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

INZ009>015-161400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
309 AM EST THU JUN 18 1992

IN INDIANA A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 9  AM  EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA...

SOUTH OF A LINE FROM RISHMOND TO INDIANAPILOS AND EAST OF A LINE FROM
INDIANAPOLIS TO 20 MILES NORTH OF EVANSVILLE...AND FROM 20 MILES
NORTH OF EVANSVILLE TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... BEDFORD...BLOOMINGTN...COLUMBUS...
NEW ALBANY AND MADISON.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER 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.

THIS REPLACE THE TORNADO WATCH WHICH WAS ISSUED WEDNESDAY EVENING.

WJG

Local storm report, Jun 18, 3:40 AM CDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
335 AM EST THU JUN 18 1992

TIME      LOCATION                     EVENT

0230 EST  SE RUSH CO                   PSBL TORNADO...
                                       BARN GONE, SHED AND GRAIN
                                       BINS DESTROYED

MES

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 4:24 AM CDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

INZ009>015-161020-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
425 AM EST THU JUN 18 1992

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHEAST AND PART OF
SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 900 AM EST...

AT 410 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE SOUTHEAST PART OF THE STATE.
THE STORMS WERE SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 70 AND EAST OF STATE ROAD 37.
STORMS WITH HEAVY RAINFALL WERE IN AN AREA FROM JUST SOUTHEAST OF
BLOOMINGTON TO EDINBURGH AND GREENSBURG. OTHER HEAVY RAINFALL WAS
SCATTERED FROM BEDFORD EAST TO AROUND NORTH VERNON.

THE AREA OF STORMS WAS SINKING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST. THERE WILL BE
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND AREAS OF HEAVY RAINFALL. HAIL AND STRONG WINDS
WILL BE POSSIBLE THI'S MORNING.

DS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 18, 8:29 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Warren	3 hr
Jun 18, 9:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Barren	2 hr
Jun 18, 12:02 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	IND	Monroe	4 hr
Jun 18, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Hart	52 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Kentucky, 1992 Every flash flood warning in 1992

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.