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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Indianapolis, IN

March 31, 1993Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1993, 12:50 PM CST for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 1993, 12:50 PM CST (18:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 1993, 1:30 PM CST
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area: Whole counties

County Warren County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KEVV 311850
SVREVV
KYC227-311930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
1250 PM CST WED MAR 31 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM CST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...WARREN COUNTY
 
AT 1249 PM CST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 10 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT
AROUND 25 MPH...AND WILL REACH BOWLING GREEN KENTUCKY BY 115 PM. YOU
SHOULD TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
TT

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, Mar 31, 10:48 AM CST, 2 hours 2 minutes before

INZ011-012-014-015-311830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN
1146 AM EST WED MAR 31 1993

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN
AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EST/4 PM CST FOR
THAT PART OF INDIANA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SULLIVAN TO SEYMOUR...AND
WEST OF A LINE FROM SEYMOUR TO 20 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY.

SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE BEDFORD...EVANSVILLE...VINCENNES
...PETERSBURG...WASHINGTON...AND PRINCETON.

LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE
POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. PEOPLE IN SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST
INDIANA SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL RADIO AND
TELEVISION STATIONS THIS AFTERNOON...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
.
SBH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 31, 12:07 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Simpson	53 min
Mar 31, 1:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Logan, Warren	55 min
Mar 31, 2:42 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	IND	Ohio	33 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.