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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Louisville, KY

July 30, 1992Anderson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1992, 7:03 PM EDT for Anderson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 1992, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1992, 7:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Anderson County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 222 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: 275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1037 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

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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, Jul 30, 5:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

KYZ007-302300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY
523 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR: ANDERSON..BOURBON..BOYLE..CLARK..
   FAYETTE..FLEMING..FRANKLIN..GARRARD..HARRISON..JESSAMINE..MERCER..
   NICHOLAS..ROBERTSON..SCOTT AND WOODFORD COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ABOVE COUNTIES
UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS THURSDAY EVENING. AT 510 PM EDT..WEATHER SERVICE
RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY...HOWEVER
A LARGE AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS INDICATED FROM JUST NORTHWEST
OF DAYTON OHIO SOUTHWESTWARD TO JUST NORTH OF FORT CAMBELL KENTUCKY.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO ENTER EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY FROM THE
WEST AFTER 630 PM EDT THIS EVEING.

IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING AND REMAIN INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED. IF YOU ARE NEAR A STREAM OR IN A LOW LYING AREA KEEP AN EYE
ON WATER LEVELS. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IF RAPIDLY RISING WATER IS
OBSERVED.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS THAT
CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE
WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CO0NDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

SZAPPANOS

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 5:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

KYZ009-302215-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
515 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE COUNTIES OF METCALFE...ADAIR...GREEN...TAYLOR...
MARION...AND CASEY AND THE CITY OF CAMPBELLSVILLE ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH.

AT 510 PM...RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.
HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING NORTH AND WEST OF THE AREA WITH
ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT EXPECTED THIS EVENING.

AS A RESULT...BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING.
STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER INSIDE.

FUNK

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:06 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

KYZ004-INZ013-015-302310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
605 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992

AT 600 PM EDT...A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM CLARK
COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA TO MEADE AND EASTERN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...OR FROM ABOUT 10-15 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE
TO 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.

THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING
...SOME SMALL HAIL...AND TORRENTIAL RAINFALL WHICH COULD TEMPORARILY
FLOOD ROADS AND LOW-LYING AREAS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
LOUISVILLE BETWEEN 600 AND 700 PM EDT AS WELL AS ADJACENT COUNTIES
NORTXH AND SOUTH OF THE CITY.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA TIL 10 PM EDT. LISTEN FOR
FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.            FUNK

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:10 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

KYZ009-302310-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
610 PM EDT THU JUL 30 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT PARTS OF SOUTH
CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE COUNTIES OF METCALFE...ADAIR...GREEN...TAYLOR...
MARION...AND CASEY AND THE CITY OF CAMPBELLSVILLE ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH.

AT 610 PM...RADAR INDICATED NO THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.
HOWEVER...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING JUST TO THE NORTH AND WEST OF THE AREA.
AS A RESULT...THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO COUNTIES WITHIN THE WATCH
...INCLUDING THE TOWNS OF GREENSBURG AND CAMPBELLSVILLE BETWEEN 7 AND 8 PM
EDT (OR 6 TO 7 CDT).

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOC\AL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES. IF
THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...TAKE COVER INSIDE.

FUNK

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 6:28 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Oldham	32 min
Jul 30, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson	37 min
Jul 30, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	32 min
Jul 30, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Larue	36 min
Jul 30, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin	31 min
Jul 30, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	42 min
Jul 30, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion, Taylor	38 min
Jul 30, 4:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Orange	38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1992 Every 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.