Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1992, 9:02 PM CDT for Todd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 1992, 9:02 PM CDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1992, 9:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Todd County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 1633 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KEVV 250203 SVREVV KYC149-177-219-250245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN 902 PM CDT WED JUN 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM CDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY ...MCLEAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...MUHLENBERG COUNTY...TODD COUNTY AT 901 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ONE TO THE SOUTHWEST OF CALHOUN IN WESTERN MCLEAN COUNTY...30 MILES SOUTH OF EVANSVILLE AND THE SECOND 10 MILES WEST OF GREENVILLE IN MUHLENBERG COUNTY...20 MILES NORTHEAST OF HOPKINSVILLE. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. RUNNELS
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, Jun 24, 3:52 PM CDT, 5 hours 10 minutes before
INZ008>013-015-242200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 350 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR PART OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 9 PM EST. AT 340 PM EST RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR CONNERSVILLE...WEST THROUGH GREENFIELD...INDIANAPOILS AND PLAINFIELD. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS 5 TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CONNERSVILLE...OR ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWES;T OF RICHMOND. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS EAST OF GREENFIELD....25 MILES EAST OF INDIANAPOLIS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS. WJG
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 4:37 PM CDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
INZALL-242245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 435 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS CANCELLED THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN INDIANA. AT 430 PM EST WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EASTERN INDIANA...ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF RICHMOND. THIS THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND SOME GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED FROM MIDWAY BETWEEN SHELBYVILLE AND COLUMBUS...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INDIANAPOLIS...TO NEAR MARTINSVILLE...ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF INDIANAPOLIS. SOME THUNDERSTORMS DURING T!HE EVENING HOURS WILL STILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. . PRICE
Special weather statement, Jun 24, 7:13 PM CDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before
INZALL-250115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 711 PM EST WED JUN 24 1992 AT 705 PM EST A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF MUNCIE IN THE EAST CENTRAL PART OF INDIANA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS STORM AS IT MOVES ACROSS NORTHEAST DELAWARE COUNTY AND INTO RANDOLPH COUNTY. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR WINCHESTER INDIANA BY 715 PM. ELSON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | IND | Webster | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 9:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | McLean, Muhlenberg | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Allen, Simpson | 47 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1992Every severe thunderstorm 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.