Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1994, 4:42 PM EST for Crawford County, Orange County, Indiana. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1994, 4:42 PM EST (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1994, 5:45 PM EST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IN, Orange County, IN
The nearest sounding before it
Paducah/Barkley, KY (KPAH), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 2202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 192144 RRA SVRSDF INC025-117-192245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 542 PM EDT SUN JUN 19 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...NORTHEASTERN CRAWFORD COUNTY...ORANGE COUNTY AT 5:36 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL JUST EAST OF MARENGO INDIANA...ABOUT 26 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL WAS JUST EAST OF PAOLI INDIANA...36 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING WEST AT 15 MPH. CITIES IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PAOLI INDIANA AND ENGLISH INDIANA WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. GO TO THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR LOWEST LEVEL IF POSSIBLE. DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM ALL DOWNED WIRES. WHW
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, Jun 19, 2:47 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
KYZ001>013-024-025-028>034-038-045-046-053-INZ076>079-084-090>092- 192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 344 PM EDT (244 PM CDT) SUN JUN 19 1994 ...HEAT ADVISORY NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY THIS EVENING... A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. AT 4PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THE HEAT INDEX AT STADIFORD FIELD IN LOUISVILLE READ 110 DEGREES. BARKLEY REGIONAL AIRPORT IN PADUCAH REPORTED A HEAT INDEX OF 106 DEGREES. HEAT EXHAUSTION IS LIKELY AT THESE TEMPERATURES AND HEAT STROKE IS POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE AND OR PHYSICAL ACITIVY. HEAT AFFECTS THE VERY YOUND AND THE ELDERLY ESPECIALLY. PLEASE TAKE PRECAUTIONS IF YOU MUST BE OUTDOORS OR IF YOU ARE WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONNG. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND EITHER SIDE OF THE OHIO RIVER THIS AFTERNOON. THOSE THUNDERSTORMS OFFER SOME HOPE OF RELIEF BUT MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY WILL REMAIN DRY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE HEAT INDEX WILL GRADUALLY LOWER AS SUNSET APPROACHES BUT UNTIL THAT TIME THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ADVISES TO USE CAUTION WITH ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. RNK
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 2:56 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before
KYZ001>013-024-025-028>034-038-045-046-053-INZ076>079-084-090>092- 192345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 344 PM EDT (244 PM CDT) SUN JUN 19 1994 ...HEAT ADVISORY NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY THIS EVENING... A HEAT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR WEST AND NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS EVENING. AT 4PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON THE HEAT INDEX AT STANDIFORD FIELD IN LOUISVILLE READ 110 DEGREES. BARKLEY REGIONAL AIRPORT IN PADUCAH REPORTED A HEAT INDEX OF 106 DEGREES. HEAT EXHAUSTION IS LIKELY AT THESE TEMPERATURES AND HEAT STROKE IS POSSIBLE WITH PROLONGED EXPOSURE AND OR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY. HEAT AFFECTS THE VERY YOUNG AND THE ELDERLY ESPECIALLY. PLEASE TAKE PRECAUTIONS IF YOU MUST BE OUTDOORS OR IF YOU ARE WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONNG. WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED ALONG AND EITHER SIDE OF THE OHIO RIVER THIS AFTERNOON. THOSE THUNDERSTORMS OFFER SOME HOPE OF RELIEF BUT MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL AND WEST KENTUCKY WILL REMAIN DRY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. THE HEAT INDEX WILL GRADUALLY LOWER AS SUNSET APPROACHES BUT UNTIL THAT TIME THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ADVISES TO USE CAUTION WITH ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. RNK
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 4:26 PM EST, 16 minutes before
KYZ024-030-192230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 526 PM EDT (426 PM CDT) SUN JUN 19 1994 AT 515 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER JEFFERSON AND BRECKINRIDGE COUNTIES OF NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. STATE POLICE REPORTED MARBLE SIZE HAIL IN A THUNDERSTORM NEAR ROUGH RIVER...60 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE WEST AT 15 MPH...AND WILL PASS NEAR GLEN DEAN AND MCQUADY BY 545 PM EDT...445 PM CDT. RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL SMALL THUNDERSTORMS OVER JEFFERSON COUNTY...THE STRONGEST OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST PART OF THE COUNTY...JUST NORTHEAST OF MT WASHINGTN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH. NORTHERN SECTIONS OF BULLITT COUNTY KENTUCKY...15 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE WILL EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL...AS THEY MOVE TO THE SOUTHWEST. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
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.