Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1992, 8:37 AM CDT for Christian County, Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 1992, 8:37 AM CDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1992, 9:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Christian County, KY, Todd County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 105 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
- 1136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 834 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, Aug 8, 5:15 AM CDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before
INZ008>015-081115 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 513 AM EST SAT AUG 8 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE DUMPING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA EARLY THIS MORNING... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM BETWEEN TERRE HAUTE AND VINCENNES...EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA INTO SOUTHEAST INDIANA. STREET FLOODING AND PONDED WATER ON ROADS MAY OCCUR OVER THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL AFTER SUNRISE. THE MAIN AREA WHERE STREET FLOODING MAY OCCUR WILL BE FROM NEAR LINTON...BEDFORD AND MITCHELL... ACROSS SEYMOUR AND NORTH VERNON TO THE VERSAILLES AREA. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE MOVING EASTWARD ACROSS THE SOUTH PART OF CENTRAL INDIANA UNTIL 7 OR 8AM EST. REPORT SERIOUS FLOODING TO THE NEAREST POLICE AGENCY FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GRAY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:46 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Lawrence | 119 min |
| Aug 8, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Hopkins | 37 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.