Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1992, 5:18 PM EDT for Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1992, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, KY, Pike County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 2129 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 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 KJKL 242118
SVRJKL
KYC071-195-242200-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
518 PM EDT FRI APR 24 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE SOUTHEAST PART OF KENTUCKY
SOUTHERN FLOYD...NORTHERN PIKE
AT 515 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY...SOUTHEAST OF
PRESTONBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR
AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN PIKE COUNTY BY 530 PM EDT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE
FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH..LARGE HAIL..AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER IMMEDIATELY..
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING..YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLICANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
ASK THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY TO RELAY YOUR REPORTS OF
SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN JACKSON
HUDGINSWhat 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, Apr 24, 4:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
KYZ008-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 400 PM EDT FRI APR 22 1992 AT 355 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF MCKEE NEAR ROBINSON IN JACKSON COUNTY...35 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES ACROSS JACKSON COUNTY. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL THIS MORNING...BE PREPARED FOR REDUCED VISIBILITY AND POSSIBLE STANDING WATER ON ROADS FROM HEAVY DOWNPOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 4:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
KYZ008-242100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 400 PM EDT FRI APR 22 1992 AT 355 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES EAST OF MCKEE NEAR ROBINSON IN JACKSON COUNTY...35 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM MAY PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS... DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS IT MOVES ACROSS JACKSON COUNTY. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL THIS AFTERNOON...BE PREPARED FOR LOW VISIBILITY AND POSSIBLE STANDING WATER ON ROADS FROM HEAVY DOWNPOURS. STAY TUNED TO TNOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Apr 24, 5:11 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
KYZ008-242300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 515 PM EDT FRI APR 22 1992 AT 510 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHWEST KNOTT COUNTY...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF HAZARD. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN FLOYD COUNTY BY 530 PM EDT. THIS STORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...SEEK A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL THIS AFTERNOON...BE PREPARED FOR LOW VISIBILITY AND POSSIBLE STANDING WATER ON ROADS FROM HEAVY DOWNPOURS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUDGINS
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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.