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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Indianapolis, IN

April 27, 1994Daviess County, Hancock County, Kentucky

NWS Indianapolis, IN issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 27, 1994, 9:10 PM CDT for Daviess County, Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 27, 1994, 9:10 PM CDT (02:10 UTC)
Expired
Apr 27, 1994, 9:45 PM CDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Indianapolis, IN
Area
Whole counties

Counties Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 00:00Z on 1994-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 310 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 00:00Z on 1994-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -25 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1010 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
1 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 280211
SVREVV
KYC059-091-280245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EVANSVILLE IN
910 PM CDT WED APR 27 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EVANSVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  945 PM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTHWEST KENTUCKY
 
   ...DAVIESS COUNTY...HANCOCK COUNTY
 
AT 907 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UTICA
KENTUCKY...ABOUT 15 MILES SOUTH OF OWENSBORO KENTUCKY. THE STORM WAS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH...AND WILL REACH WHITESVILLE BY 920 PM
AND HAWESVILLE BY 930 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDMuhlenberg, Todd42 min
Apr 27, 7:49 PM CDTTornado WarningINDTodd26 min
Apr 28, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningINDDaviess, Hancock, Ohio38 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.