Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1992, 7:59 PM EDT for Franklin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1992, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1992, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Franklin County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1339 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KLEX 100000 SVRLEX KYC073-100045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 759 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LEXINGTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...FRANKLIN COUNTY AT 755 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON NEAR FRANKFORT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS PRODUCING FLOODING LOW LYING AREAS IS LIKELY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN_ ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. KERR
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, Jul 9, 6:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
KYZ009-100010- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 615 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THOUGH 10 PM... AT 6 PM EDT...HOT AND MUGGY WEATHER COVERED THE AREA...WITH HEAT INDICES AROUND 100. THERE WERE NO THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA...BUT THEY COULD DEVELOP IN THE HOT AND MUGGY AIR. THROUGH 8 PM...PARTLY SUNNY AND HOT WEATHER WILL PERSIST...WITH^ MERCURY READINGS BEGINNING TO FALL SLOWLY. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SECURE INDOOR SHELTER. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY AND MOVE INSIDE AS THUNDERSTORMS MOVE IN. REITMEYER
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
KYZ007-092300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 615 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992 ..A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 10 PM EDT... AT 605 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...35 TO 45 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON MOVING SOUTHEAST AROUND AN HOUR...AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO OR NEAR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY NORTH OF A LINE FROM SADIEVILLE TO CYNTHIANA TO MT OLIVET BY 630 PM EDT. OTHER STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SOUTHEASTERN INDIANA AND WILL MOVE EAST INTO PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY TO THE NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON BY 8 PM EDT. DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. KERR
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KYZ009-100025- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 625 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH 11 PM EDT... AT 615 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH ACROSS WASHINGTON AND SCOTT COUNTIES OF INDIANA...25 TO 40 NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. RADAR INDICATED THESE STORMS WERE SEVERE...WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...BUT NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY OF INDIANA THROUGH 645 PM EDT. ELSEWHERE...HOT AND MUGGY WEATHER PREVAILED WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER 90S AND HEAT INDICES FROM 100 TO 105. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SECURE INDOOR SHELTER. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY...AND RESPECT EVERY THUNDERSTORM. THEY ALL PRODUCE LIGHTNING...A KILLER IN ITS OWN RIGHT. REITMEYER
Local storm report, Jul 9, 6:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
645 PM EDT THU JUL 09 1992
TIME EVENT
630PM EDT HARRISON COUNTY NEAR COLESMANVILLE...TREES DOWN BLOCKING
ROADS REPORTED BY CYNTHIANA POLICESpecial weather statement, Jul 9, 7:11 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ013-015-100110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 715 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THROUGH 11 PM EDT... AT 710 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER FROM LOUISVILLE NORTHEAST ABOUT 20 MILES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. OTHER THAN THAT PARTLY CLOUDY AND HOT WEATHER COVERED THE AREA. MERCURY READINGS WERE ABOUT 90 AND HEAT INDICES WERE 95 TO 100. THROUGH 9 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO JEFFERSON...OLDHAM AND HENRY COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE SECURE INDOOR SHELTER. KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKY...AND RESPECT EVERY THUNDERSTORM. THEY ALL PRODUCE LIGHTNING...A KILLER IN ITS OWN RIGHT. REITMEYER
Local storm report, Jul 9, 7:44 PM EDT, 15 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
745 PM EDT THU JUL 9 1992
IN CONNECTION WITH WEATHER WATCH #582 7/9
625 PM EDT SCOTT COUNTY INDIANA...FROM COUNTY SHERIFF- TREES DOWN
SOUTHERN SCOTT COUNTY, INCLUDING A LARGE ONE COMPLETELY
BLOCKING A ROAD NEAR VIENNA.
635 PM EDT FROM SCOTT COUNTY(IN) SHERIFF- TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN IN SEVERAL PLACES AROUND LEOTA...NEAR SCOTTSBURG
25 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE.
REITMEYERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 7:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas | 48 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.