Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1993
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 1993, 12:46 AM EDT for Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 1993, 12:46 AM EDT (04:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 1993, 1:10 AM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 050446 TORSDF KYC137-050515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1246 AM EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 115 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...LINCOLN COUNTY AT 1240 AM EDT LINCOLN COUNTY DES REPORTED A TORNADO 25 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET IN LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS CRAB ORCHARD BY 115 AM EDT. 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 INLTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. AMMERMAN
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, Jun 4, 11:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ015-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1100 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THUND ERSTORMS HAVE WEEKENED OVER THE STATE DURING THE PAST HOUR AND THE TREAT OF TORNADOS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED. AMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 4, 11:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
KYZ004-009-INZ015-050300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1100 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR A PORTION OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY HAS BEEN C ANCELLED... THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED OVER THE STATE DURING THE PAST HOUR AND THE TREAT OF TORNADOS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAS ENDED. AMMERMAN
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:04 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
KYZ007-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY MIDNIGHT EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAYETTE WOODFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES EXPIRED... AT MIDNIGHT RADAR INDICATED STRONG STORMS OVER MENIFEE AND ROWAN ROWAN COUNTIES 40 TO 50 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST BUT WILL LIKELY CONTAIN SOME HAIL VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOWER LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. MOST OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF I75 AND WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. BE PREPARED FOR SOME RISING WATERS IN THE HILLY TERRAIN OF EAST KENTUCKY.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:04 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
KYZ007-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY MIDNIGHT EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAYETTE WOODFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES EXPIRED... AT MIDNIGHT RADAR INDICATED STRONG STORMS OVER MENIFEE AND ROWAN ROWAN COUNTIES 40 TO 50 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST BUT WILL LIKELY CONTAIN SOME HAIL VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOWER LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. MOST OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF I75 AND WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. BE PREPARED FOR SOME RISING WATERS IN THE HILLY TERRAIN OF EAST KENTUCKY.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:08 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
KYZ007-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY MIDNIGHT EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAYETTE WOODFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES EXPIRED... AT MIDNIGHT RADAR INDICATED STRONG STORMS OVER MENIFEE AND ROWAN COUNTIES 40 TO 50 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST BUT WILL LIKELY CONTAIN SOME HAIL VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOWER LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. MOST OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF I75 AND WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. BE PREPARED FOR SOME RISING WATERS IN THE HILLY TERRAIN OF EAST KENTUCKY.
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 12:08 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
KYZ007-050430- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY MIDNIGHT EDT SAT JUN 5 1993 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 1AM EDT TONIGHT... ...FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR FAYETTE WOODFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES EXPIRED... AT MIDNIGHT RADAR INDICATED STRONG STORMS OVER MENIFEE AND ROWAN COUNTIES 40 TO 50 MILES EAST OF LEXINGTON. THEY WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST BUT WILL LIKELY CONTAIN SOME HAIL VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. FLOODING OF LOWER LYING AREAS WILL BE POSSIBLE DUE TO THE HEAVY RAINS. MOST OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE EAST OF I75 AND WERE MOVING RAPIDLY EAST. BE PREPARED FOR SOME RISING WATERS IN THE HILLY TERRAIN OF EAST KENTUCKY.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 60 min |
| Jun 4, 11:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Woodford | 60 min |
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.