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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Louisville, KY

March 24, 1994Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 12:01 AM EST for Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 24, 1994, 12:01 AM EST (05:01 UTC)
Expired
Mar 24, 1994, 12:30 AM EST
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN

The nearest sounding before it

Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 240 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1994-03-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Dayton/James M C, OH at 00:00Z on 1994-03-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3250 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
314 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 23, 11:40 PM EST, 21 minutes before
KYZ024-028>030-033>034-038-045-046-053-INZ076-079-084-090>092-240600-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1140 PM EST WED MAR 24 1994

...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO METRO LOUISVILLE...

AT 1130 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED RAPIDLY DEVELOPING THUNDERSTORMS
35 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE IN ORANGE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES
NEAR PAOLI AND ENGLISH.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH...PEA SIZE HAIL AND
VERY HEAVY RAIN.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE REST OF THE LOUISVILLE METRO
AREA BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 1 AM EST.

TUCEK

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 24, 12:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKClark26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.