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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Louisville, KY

June 18, 1992Spencer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 1992, 6:46 PM EDT for Spencer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 18, 1992, 6:46 PM EDT (22:46 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 1992, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Spencer County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 5:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

KYZ007-182215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
500 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992

...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11PM FOR EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...

AT 500PM EDT A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST TOWARD
FRANKLIN COUNTY OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THIS STORM WAS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL
VERY HEAVY RAIN AND A POSSIBLE TORNADO AS IT MOVED EAST AT NEAR 20 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL LIKELY CONTINUE TO APPROACH FRANKLIN COUNTY !AND THE
CITY OF FRANKFORT WITH THE TRACK ALSO TOWARD SCOTT AND NORTHERN
WOODFORD COUNTY 15 TO 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON.
IF THREATENING CONDITIONS ARE SIGHTED BE PREPARED TO MOVE TO SAFETY.

Local storm report, Jun 18, 5:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
505 PM EDT THU JUNE 18 1992

TIME               EVENT

450 PM EDT         PEA SIZE HAIL ON TAYLOR AND ADAIR COUNTY LINE.
                   27 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET.

500 PM  EDT        PEA SIZE HAIL AND TREES IN THE ROAD ON THE SOUTH SIDE
                   OF ELIZABETHTOWN IN HARDIN COUNTY...30 MILES SW OF
                   LOUISVILLE.

505 PM EDT         QUARTER SIZE HAIL AND STRONG WIND IN ELIZABETHTOWN
                   IN HARDIN COUNTY...30 MILES SW OF LOUISVILLE.

DATTILO

Local storm report, Jun 18, 5:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
525 PM EDT THU JUNE 18 1992

TIME               EVENT

510 PM EDT         DES IN SHELBY COUNTY KENTUCKY REPORTED TORNADO ON
        5           THE GROUND NEAR BAGDAD...20 MILES EAST OF SDF.
                   DES ALSO REPORTED NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AND STRUCTURAL
                   DAMAGE TO BUILDINGS IN SHELBY COUNTY.

FUNK

Local storm report, Jun 18, 5:51 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
545 PM EDT THU JUNE 18 1992

TIME               EVENT

530 PM EDT         CENTRAL DISPATCH IN GREENSBURG...50 MILES SOUTH OF
                   SDF...REPORTED PEA SIZED HAIL

CALLAHAN

Local storm report, Jun 18, 6:18 PM EDT, 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
618 PM EDT THU JUNE 18 1992

TIME               EVENT

550 PM EDT         IN THE COMMUNITY OF GABE IN GREEN COUNTY ABOUT
                   40 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET...POWER LINES WERE
                   DOWNED BY THUNDERSTORM WINDS. REPORT FROM TAYLOR
                   COUNTY CENTRAL DISPATCH.

LGL

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 6:44 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

KYZ002-004-182315-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
640 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992

TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 401 IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM EDT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL
KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED WEST OF INTERSTATE 65. THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE WATCH...

   SIMPSON...WARREN...BUTLER...EDMONSON...GRAYSON...HART...HARDIN...
   BRECKINRIDGE...MEADE...BULLITT...JEFFERSON

THE TORNADO WATCH REMAAINS IN EFFECT TIL 11 PM EDT EAST OF INTERSTATE 65.

FUNK

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, 5:48 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, 6:56 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

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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.