Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 268, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 14, 1993, 1:10 PM CST for Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 14, 1993, 1:10 PM CST (19:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 14, 1993, 2:00 PM CST
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
County Muhlenberg County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 659 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 339 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.4
- Supercell composite
- 6.2
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, Nov 14, 10:00 AM CST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
INZALL-142200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1100 AM EST SUN NOV 14 1993 IN INDIANA A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... BEDFORD...EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS... JASPER...PETERSBURG...SCOTTSBURG...VINCENNES...AND TELL CITY. 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
Special weather statement, Nov 14, 10:03 AM CST, 3 hours 7 minutes before
INZALL-142200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 1100 AM EST SUN NOV 14 1993 IN INDIANA A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EST AND INCLUDES THAT PART OF INDIANA... SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... BEDFORD...EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS... JASPER...PETERSBURG...SCOTTSBURG...VINCENNES...AND TELL CITY. 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
Special weather statement, Nov 14, 12:00 PM CST, 1 hour 10 minutes before
INZ064-067>071-076>078-081>091-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 100 PM EST SUN NOV 14 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 500 PM EST... THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... BEDFORD...EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS... JASPER...PETERSBURG... SCOTTSBURG...VINCENNES...AND TELL CITY. AT 1250 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA. ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS WAS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST. 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. DS
Special weather statement, Nov 14, 12:02 PM CST, 1 hour 8 minutes before
INZ064-067>071-076>078-081>091-142000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 100 PM EST SUN NOV 14 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT OVER SOUTHWEST INDIANA UNTIL 500 PM EST... THE WATCH IS IN EFFECT SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTH OF VINCENNES TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS...AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS TO LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY. SOME CITIES INCLUDED ARE... BEDFORD...EVANSVILLE...COLUMBUS... JASPER...PETERSBURG... SCOTTSBURG...VINCENNES...AND TELL CITY. AT 1250 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHWEST INDIANA. ANOTHER AREA OF STORMS WAS OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ILLINOIS. ALL THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST. 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. DS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Indianapolis, IN issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 14, 7:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Brown, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 7:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Parke, Vermillion, Vigo | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Hamilton, Hancock, Henry, Madison, Marion, Rush and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Boone, Hendricks, Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Greene, Sullivan, Vigo | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Fountain, Parke, Vermillion | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Morgan, Owen, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Delaware, Randolph | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Monroe | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:20 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Wayne | 6 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Gibson, Knox | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Daviess, Dubois, Martin, Pike | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 1:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Jackson, Jennings, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Nov 14, 1:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Daviess, Hancock, Ohio | 50 min |
| Nov 14, 10:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay, Wayne | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 10:54 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Crawford, Jasper | 4 hr |
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.