Alert archive / Indiana / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 1992, 7:24 PM EDT for Clark County, Scott County, Indiana. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 1992, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clark County, IN, Scott County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- NaN m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 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 KSDF 222326 FFWSDF INC019-143-230030- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 724 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CLARK COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN SCOTT COUNTY AT 720 PM EDT NWS RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE APPROACHING HENRYVILLE INDIANA ON THE SCOTT...CLARK COUNTY LINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING SLOWLY SOUTHEAST AND WILL TRACK INTO HENRYVILLE BY 745 PM EDT. FLASH FLOOD PRODUCING RAINS WILL LIKELY OCCUR AS WELL WITH THIS STORM DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMENT. LIGHTNING IS THE SINGLE WORST KILLER WITHIN A THUNDERSTORM ...SO STAY INDOORS AND AVOID USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES. HEAVY RAINS FROM THUNDERSTORMS FLOOD ROADWAYS QUICKLY ...SO AVOID DRIVING INTO AREAdS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. KIRKPATRICK
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, Jul 22, 7:07 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
KYZ004-INZ013-015-230010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 705 PM EDT WED JUL 22 1992 ...SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS DROPPING HEAVY RAIN OVER PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS EVENING... AT 7 PM EDT...NWS RADAR DETECTED NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORMS 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE JUST EAST OF SALEM INDIANA IN EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY. IN ADDITION TO PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...THESE STORMS WERE LIKELY PRODUCING STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVED SLOWLY EAST. THE TOWNS OF SCOTTSBURG AND HENRYVILLE IN SCOTT AND NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA WILL RECIEVE THE BRUNT OF THESE STORMS BY 8 PM EDT. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEAZTHER SERVICE FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR WARNINGS. KIRKPATRICK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Scott | 66 min |
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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.