Alert archive / West Virginia / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 11, 1992, 7:20 PM EDT for Cabell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 1992, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 1992, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cabell County, WV
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 796 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 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 KHTS 112312 TORHTS WVC011-112345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HUNTINGTON WV 720 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HUNTINGTON HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN WEST WEST VIRGINIA ...SOUTHWESTERN CABELL COUNTY PILOT REPORT INDICATED A FUNNERL CLOUD 5 N OF THE HUNTINGTON TRI STATE AIRPORT AT 715 PM EDT MOVIMG SOUTHEAST...RADAR INDICATES IT OVER HUNTINGTON AT 720 EDT. 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 INTER IOR 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, Aug 11, 4:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
KYZ008-112100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 405 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992 ...THUNDERSORMS APPROACHING LEE...WOLFE AND MORGAN COUNTIES... AT 400 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS 35 MILES NORTHWEST OF JACKSON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN LEE...WOLFE AND MORGAN COUNTIES BY 500 PM. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE ISOLATED FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...DITCHES OR LOW LYING AREAS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 5:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
KYZ008-112200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 510 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD THE JACKSON AREA... AT 500 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS FROM 35 MILES NORTHEAST OF JACKSON TO 50 WEST OF JACKSON...OR FROM MORGAN COUNTY ACROSS LEE AND WOLFE COUNTIES...TO JUST NORTHWEST OF JACKSON COUNTY. THEY WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. THE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE ISOLATED FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...DITCHES OR LOW LYING AREAS. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE SHELTERZ AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 6:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
KYZ008-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 605 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO JACKSON...LEE AND WOLFE COUNTIES... AT 6 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A NARROW LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON TO 50 WEST OF JACKSON...OR FROM MORGAN COUNTY TO JUST NORTHWEST OF JACKSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...LOW LYING AREAS AND DITCHES. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. DES
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 6:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
KYZ008-112300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 605 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO JACKSON...LEE AND WOLFE COUNTIES... AT 6 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A NARROW LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 35 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON TO 50 MILES WEST OF JACKSON...OR FROM MORGAN COUNTY TO JUST NORTHWEST OF JACKSON COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...LOW LYING AREAS AND DITCHES. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. DES
Special weather statement, Aug 11, 7:07 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
KYZ008-120000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 705 PM EDT TUE AUG 11 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... AT 7 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A NARROW LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES NORTH OF PIKEVILLE TO 35 MILES WEST OF JACKSON. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED NEAR PRESTONSBURG IN FLOYD COUNTY. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS NEAR MCKEE IN JACKSON COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS SOUTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DEADLY LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. THE HEAVY RAIN ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS COULD CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS...LOW LYING AREAS AND DITCHES. WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES...YOU SHOULD MOVE TO A SAFE INDOOR SHELTER AND BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS OBSERVED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. SMITH
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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.