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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Louisville, KY

July 22, 1992Clark County, Scott County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Dayton/James M C, OH at 12:00Z on 1992-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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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 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 22, 7:24 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKClark, Scott66 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.