Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Indianapolis, IN
NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 31, 1993, 1:50 PM CST for Logan County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 1993, 1:50 PM CST (19:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 1993, 2:45 PM CST
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Indianapolis, IN
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Logan County, KY, Warren County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 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
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, Mar 31, 10:48 AM CST, 3 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
Special weather statement, Mar 31, 1:03 PM CST, 47 minutes before
INZ011-012-014-015-312005- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INDIANAPOLIS IN 200 PM EST WED MAR 31 1993 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWEST INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON... AT 200 PM EST RAIN WAS FALLING OVER SOUTHERN INDIANA...AND RAIN WILL CONTINUE FOR MUCH OF THE AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWEST INDIANA DURING THE AFTERNOON...AND SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PROjDUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. PEOPLE IN SOUTHERN INDIANA SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE WEATHER THIS AFTERNOON...AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND 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, 12:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Warren | 40 min |
| Mar 31, 2:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Ohio | 33 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.