Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 4:21 PM EDT for Oldham County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oldham County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 4:27 PM EDT | Hail 1.75 | Oldham, KY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 199 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
- 15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 880 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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
Local storm report, Jun 18, 11:37 AM EDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY.
1130AM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
TIME EDT EVENT
0955 FLEMING COUNTY...TREES DOWN ON KY57
0945 ANDERSON COUNTY...FLASH FLOOD CROOKED CREEK...6 HOMES
EVACUATED PUNCHEON CREEK. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AROUND COUNTY
2.34 INCHES RAIN IN 70 MINUTES. HWY KY53 AND US62 BLOCKED
BY TREES. CONSIDERABLE LOCAL FLOODING.
0920 FAYETTE COUNTY...FEW TREES DOWN WITH ROADS CLOSED DUE TO
FLOODING MOSTLY NORTH AND WEST OF CITY.
0930 WOODFORD COUNTY...NUMEROUS HOMES AND BUSINESS FLOODED. 21/2-
INCHES RAINFALL IN ONE HOUR. HUNTERTOWN RD BLOCKED BY TREES.
TELEPHONE LINES DOWN AROUND COUNTY.
0945 NICHOLAS COUNTY...TREES DOWN HEADQUARTERS RD.
0954 JESSAMINE COUNTY...TREES DOWN AROUND THE COUNTY. TWO
LIGHTNING FIRES. US68 AND KY29 BLOCKED BY TREES
1012 CLARK COUNTY...TREES DOWN 2-MILE ROAD
1005 BOYLE COUNTY...DOWN POWER LINES AROUND COUNTY. TREE DAMAGE
KY52
THESE COUNTIES WERE ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO ONLY BY T
HE WSO LEXINGTON AT 0930. THERE WERE
NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES AND INTERRUPTIONS DURING THIS PERIOD AND ONLY NWR
WAS OPERABLE FOR A SHORT PERIOD TO GET THE WARNINGS OUT.Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before
KYZ004-181810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1210 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LINCOLN COUNTY...40 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET...HAS EXPIRED
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 1:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ015-013-181810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 115 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WILL HAVE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REDEVLOPING THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING 50 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. SKIES WERE PARTLY SUNNY AND TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE MID 70S TO MID 80S. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN NUMBERS AND INTENSITY. KEEP ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS SINCE SEVERE WEATHER IS STILL POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE LOWER 80S IN CLOUDIER AREAS AND TO AROUND 90 IN SUNNIER AREAS. ...SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON WITH HIGH POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING... < AT 1 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS THE ENTIRE SOUTHEAST HALF OF KENTUCKY. AREAS TEMPERATURES WERE HOLDING AROUND 70 AS THE RESULT OF THE RAIN. THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE. FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN SOME AREAS. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE LOWER 70S. ...CORRECTED TO MAKE THE NOWCAST A COMBINED SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NOWCAST...THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN INFORMATION... TUCEK
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 3:33 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 9:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 45 min |
| Jun 18, 9:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 10:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 37 min |
| Jun 18, 10:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 12:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 115 min |
| Jun 18, 12:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Marion, Nelson, Washington | 110 min |
| Jun 18, 12:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 110 min |
| Jun 18, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson, Spencer | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Shelby | 39 min |
| Jun 18, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 18 min |
| Jun 18, 5:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Franklin | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Nelson | 26 min |
| Jun 18, 5:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott, Woodford | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette, Scott, Woodford | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 40 min |
| Jun 18, 6:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Fayette | 32 min |
| Jun 18, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 29 min |
| Jun 18, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Woodford | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 42 min |
| Jun 18, 3:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 27 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.