Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1992
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Aug 15, 1992, 12:17 AM EDT for Laurel County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 1992, 12:17 AM EDT (04:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1992, 12:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Laurel County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 682 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 150419 TORSDF KYC125-203-150445- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1217 AM EDT SAT AUG 15 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...LAUREL COUNTY...ROCKCASTLE COUNTY STATE POLICE REPORTED A TORNADO IN PULASKI COUNTY KENTUCKY AT 1209 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...TOWARDS THE TOWN OF MOUNT VERNON. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. WILSON/KLEIN
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, Aug 14, 7:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
KYZ007-150005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 705 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 1992 ...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE FORMING AND MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 705 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE NORTHERN PART OF JESSAMINE COUNTY OVER THE CITY OF WILMORE. WILMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORTS VERY HEAVY RAIN FLOODING STREETS IN THE CITY OF WILMORE...ALSO WINDS ARE VERY STRONG AND GUSTY 1/4 INCH HAIL IS ALSO REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AND IS NEARING THE CITY OF NICHOLASVILLE . IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THNDERSTORM TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOHWS...DO NOT TRY TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS AS YOU COULD LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR AUTOMOBILE. CALL REPORTS OF DAMAGE FROM THIS STORM TO YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ASK THEM TO RELAY IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BH
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 7:57 PM EDT, 4 hours 20 minutes before
KYZ007-150155- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 755 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 1992 ...SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE FORMING AND MOVING ACROSS EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 755 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTHWEST PART OF FAYETTE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF BLUE GRASS AIRPORT. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN WILEMORE REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN FLOODING STREETS IN WILMOREAS IT PASSED THROUGH...ALSO WINDS WERE VERY STRONG AND GUSTY. 1/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED UP TO 3 INCHES DEPTH IN WILEMORE. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AND WILL ENTER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF LEXINGTON AROUND 8PM EDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS THUNDERSTORM TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT TRY TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS AS YOU COULD LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR AUTOMOBILE. GIVE REPORTS OF DAMAGE FROM THIS STORM TO YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ASK THEM TO RELAY IT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BH
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 8:46 PM EDT, 3 hours 31 minutes before
KYZ007-150145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 845 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 1992 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE MOVING THROUGH EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 845 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN THE SOUTH END OF LEXINGTON. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS A HISTORY OF VERY HEAVY RAIN AS IT PASSED THROUGH JESSAMINE COUNTY WITH OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN IN A LITTLE OVER AN HOURS TIME FLOODING STREETS. 1/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM ALONG WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDER/ STORM WAS OVER LEXINGTONS BLUEGRASS AIRPORT. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AND WILL MOVE ACROSS FAYETTE COUNTY INTO SCOTT COUNTY NEAR GEORGETOWN AND INTO BOURBON COUNTY NEAR PARIS AROUND 930PM EDT. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT USE ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES INCLUDING TELEPHONES. DO NOT TRY TO CROSS WATER COVERED ROADS AS YOU MAY LOSE CONTROL OF YOUR AUTOMOBILE. BH
Special weather statement, Aug 14, 11:47 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
KYZ009-150335- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1135 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 1992 THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL AND STRONG WINDS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. AT 1135 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY LOCATED ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET KENTUCKY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH...THROUGH NORTHERN PULASKI COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE NORTH TOWARD MOUNT VERNON ...INTO ROCKCASTLE COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG WIND. IF THIS THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SEEK INSIDE SHELTER NOW. THERE COULD BE LOCALIZED FLOODING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM...SO AVOID WATER COVERED ROADS. WILSON
Local storm report, Aug 14, 11:56 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1155 PM EDT FRI AUG 14 1992
1130 PM EDT FROM PULASKI COUNTY SHERIFF...MARBLE SIZE HAIL
AND HEAVY RAIN AT SOMERSET KENTUCKY.
WILSONNearby
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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.