Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 24, 1994, 12:19 AM EST for Clark County, Indiana. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 1994, 12:19 AM EST (05:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 1994, 12:45 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clark County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Dayton/James M C, OH (KDAY), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 240520 SVRSDF INC019-240545- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1219 AM EST THU MAR 24 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...CLARK COUNTY AT 12:15 AM EST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE IN NORTHWEST CLARK COUNTY. THE RADAR INDICATED LARGE HAIL WITH THE STORM. THE STORM IS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL MOVE TO OTTO AND NEW WASHINGTON IN NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY BY 12:45 AM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEA THER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. AMMERMAN
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, 39 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 12:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 29 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.