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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 15, 1993Allen County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1993, 3:30 PM CDT for Allen County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 15, 1993, 3:30 PM CDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired
Apr 15, 1993, 4:00 PM CDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

County Allen County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1993-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 182 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1993-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 152 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
182 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
686 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
269 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.9

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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, Apr 15, 1:52 PM CDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before
INZALL-151950-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
150 PM EST THU APR 15 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800  PM EST
FOR SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA...

AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10
MILES NORTH OF RENSSELAER TO FORT WAYNE.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... ANDERSON...BEDFORD...BLOOMINGTON...
RICHMOND...INDIANAPOLIS...EVANSVILLE...MUNCIE...RICHMOND...AND
NEW ALBANY.

REMEMBER...A WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE
WEATHER IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD
BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR
LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
SBH

The office that day

Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 15, 1:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMarion36 min
Apr 15, 2:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHamilton33 min
Apr 15, 2:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHancock, Madison44 min
Apr 15, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDelaware51 min
Apr 15, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDBartholomew34 min
Apr 15, 4:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDShelby48 min
Apr 15, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRush31 min
Apr 15, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDHenry35 min
Apr 15, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDWayne36 min
Apr 15, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDRandolph36 min
Apr 15, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDaviess, Ohio32 min
Apr 15, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDEdmonson, Grayson, Hart31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.