Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 5:48 PM EDT for Fayette County, Scott County, Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 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, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Fayette County, KY, Scott County, KY, Woodford County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Woodford, 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
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 180 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 214 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
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, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 39 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, 5:50 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 |
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.