Alert archive / Indiana / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 18, 1992, 2:18 PM EST for Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 27 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 1992, 2:18 PM EST (19:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 1992, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 181919 TORSDF INC077-181945- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 318 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...NORTHEASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY AT 305 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY INDIANA WAS LIKELY TO BE DEVELOPING A TORNADO. THIS STORM WAS 45 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTH OF MADISON COUNTY INDIANA. IF YOU ARE IN NORTHEAST JEFFERSON COUNTY...HEAD TO REINFORCED SHELTER OR A BASEMENT NOW! IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NhEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. TUCEK
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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, 8:23 AM EST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
KYZ004-INZ013-015-181410- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 920 AM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...HEAVIEST RAINS MOVING RAPIDLY AWAY FROM THE OHIO RIVER... AT 9 AM EDT...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVIEST RAINS WERE ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF THE OHIO RIVER BETWEEN ELIZABETHTOWN AND FRANKFORT. THE STORMS WILL ONLY LAST ABOUT AN HOUR AT ANY GIVEN LOCATION BUT WILL LIKELY CAUSE WATER PROBLEMS IN FLOOD PRONE AREAS. SKIES WILL THEN BECOME PARTLY CLOUDY AS TEMPERATURES CLIMB THROUGH THE 70S. ONE TO THREE INCH RAINS HAVE BEEN COMMON WITH THESE STORMS PROMPTING FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS AND URBAN FLOOD ADVISORIES FOR MUCH OF THE OHIO VALLEY BETWEEN EVANSVILLE AND CINCINNATI. IF YOU ARE TRAVELING SOUTH INTO KENTUCKY THIS MORNING BE PREPARED FOR BLINDING RAINS AND HAZARDOUS ROADS DUE TO HIGH WATER. IF YOU ARE NEAR CREEKS OR STREAMS...WATCH FOR FLOODING. REPORT SEVERE WEATwHER INFORMATION TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TUCEK
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 9:07 AM EST, 5 hours 11 minutes before
KYZ004-181510- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY 1005 AM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...HEAVIEST RAINS FROM LEXINGTON TO ELIZABETHTOWN MOVING SOUTHEAST... THE URBAN FLOOD ADVISORY FOR HARRISON...FLOYD AND CLARK COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA HAS EXPIRED. HIGH WATERS ON ROADS HAVE BEEN RECEDING IN THESE AREAS BUT BE CAUTIOUS NEAR STREAMS. URBAN FLOOD ADVISORIES CONTINUE UNTIL 11 AM EDT FOR JEFFERSON...OLDHAM BULLIT...SPENCER AND SHELBY COUNTIES IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 AM EDT. THE HEAVY RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THESE COUNTIES AND WATER LEVELS WILL BEGIN RECEDING ON ROADS AND THEN IN THE STREAMS. AT 10 AM EDT...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS AND HEAVIEST RAINS WERE IN A LINE FROM LEXINGTON TO NEAR ELIZABETHTOWN. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND CONTINUED TO PRODUCE FLOODING RAINS AND LOCALLY GUSTY WINDS. < IF YOU ARE TRAVELING SOUTH INTO KENTUCKY...BE PREPARED FOR BLINDING RAINS AND HAZARDOUS ROADS DUE TO HIGH WATER. IF YOU ARE NEAR CREEKS OR STREAMS...WATCH FOR FLOODING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION TO YOUR NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY FOR RELAY TO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. TUCEK
Local storm report, Jun 18, 9:47 AM EST, 4 hours 31 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1040 PM EDT THU JUNE 18 1992
TIME EVENT
500-1030 AM EDT REPORTS OF TWO TO FIVE INCH STORM TOTAL RAINFALL
IN NEARLY ALL COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
AND EXTREME SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA. REPORTS FROM
PUBLIC...WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL...LOCAL POLICE
AND LOCAL EMS MEMBERS. RAINFALL RATES AVERAGED
TWO TO THREE INCHES PER HOUR.
COUNTIES INCLUDE HARRISON...FLOYD...CLARK IN SOUTH
CENTRAL INDIANA. JEFFERSON...OLDHAM...HENRY...SHELBY
BULLITT...SPENCER...HARDIN AND WASHINGT1ON COUNTIES IN
KENTUCKY SO FAR.
1025 AM EDT 4.86 INCHES TOTAL RAINFALL FROM STORMS 5-10 AM EDT IN
BULLITT COUNTY REPORTED BY WEATHER SERVICE EMPLOYEE.
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TUCEKLocal storm report, Jun 18, 10:37 AM EST, 3 hours 41 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY.
1130AM EDT THU JUN 18 1992
TIME EDT EVENT
0955 FLEMING COUNTY...TREES DOWN ON KY57
0945 ANDERSON COUNTY...FLASH FLOOD CROOKED CREEK...6 HOMES
EVACUATED PUNCHEON CREEK. NUMEROUS TREES DOWN AROUND COUNTY
2.34 INCHES RAIN IN 70 MINUTES. HWY KY53 AND US62 BLOCKED
BY TREES. CONSIDERABLE LOCAL FLOODING.
0920 FAYETTE COUNTY...FEW TREES DOWN WITH ROADS CLOSED DUE TO
FLOODING MOSTLY NORTH AND WEST OF CITY.
0930 WOODFORD COUNTY...NUMEROUS HOMES AND BUSINESS FLOODED. 21/2-
INCHES RAINFALL IN ONE HOUR. HUNTERTOWN RD BLOCKED BY TREES.
TELEPHONE LINES DOWN AROUND COUNTY.
0945 NICHOLAS COUNTY...TREES DOWN HEADQUARTERS RD.
0954 JESSAMINE COUNTY...TREES DOWN AROUND THE COUNTY. TWO
LIGHTNING FIRES. US68 AND KY29 BLOCKED BY TREES
1012 CLARK COUNTY...TREES DOWN 2-MILE ROAD
1005 BOYLE COUNTY...DOWN POWER LINES AROUND COUNTY. TREE DAMAGE
KY52
THESE COUNTIES WERE ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO ONLY BY T
HE WSO LEXINGTON AT 0930. THERE WERE
NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES AND INTERRUPTIONS DURING THIS PERIOD AND ONLY NWR
WAS OPERABLE FOR A SHORT PERIOD TO GET THE WARNINGS OUT.Special weather statement, Jun 18, 11:11 AM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
KYZ004-181810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1210 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LINCOLN COUNTY...40 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET...HAS EXPIRED
Special weather statement, Jun 18, 12:19 PM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ015-013-181810- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT RANGE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 115 PM EDT THU JUN 18 1992 ...NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA WILL HAVE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS REDEVLOPING THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE REDEVELOPING 50 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE. SKIES WERE PARTLY SUNNY AND TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE MID 70S TO MID 80S. AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN NUMBERS AND INTENSITY. KEEP ALERT TO CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS SINCE SEVERE WEATHER IS STILL POSSIBLE. TEMPERATURES WILL CLIMB INTO THE LOWER 80S IN CLOUDIER AREAS AND TO AROUND 90 IN SUNNIER AREAS. ...SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY WILL CONTINUE TO SEE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON WITH HIGH POTENTIAL FOR FLASH FLOODING... < AT 1 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS THE ENTIRE SOUTHEAST HALF OF KENTUCKY. AREAS TEMPERATURES WERE HOLDING AROUND 70 AS THE RESULT OF THE RAIN. THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE. FLASH FLOODING WILL OCCUR IN SOME AREAS. REMAIN ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN IN THE LOWER 70S. ...CORRECTED TO MAKE THE NOWCAST A COMBINED SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND NOWCAST...THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN INFORMATION... TUCEK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 42 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.