Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 10:27 AM EDT for Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana. It was in force for 48 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 10:27 AM EDT (14:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 48 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 12:00Z, 2.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Apr 15, 4:35 AM EDT, 5 hours 52 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Apr 15, 8:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
KYZ035>037-039>044-047>052-055>060-098-1151300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 800AM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 AT 8AM EDT RADAR SHOWED SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER FRANKLIN AND WOODFORD COUNTIES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THE STORMS HAVE DEVELOPED RAPIDLY AND WILL MOVE INTO SCOTT AND NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTIES BETWEEN 8 AND 830AM EDT WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT NEAR 30 MPH. OTHER STORMS DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE BLUE GRASS REGION AND OUT OVER ILLONOIS AND MISSOURI WILL THREATEN THE CENTRAL KENTUCKY AREA LATER THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THIS AFTERNOONS STORMS COULD BECOME SRTRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND YOUR LOCAL TV AND RADIO FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SYSTEM.
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 8:24 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
KYZ035>037-039>044-047>052-055>060-098-151300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 815 AM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY... AT 815 AM EDT WEATHER RADAR WAS SHOWING SOME STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER SCOTT AND NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTIES DIRECTLY NORTH OF LEXINGTON. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 35 MPH AND SHOULD ENTER HARRISON AND NORTHERN BOURBON COUNTIES BY 830 AM EDT. THESE ARE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS AND WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN AND FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING TO THE SOUTHWEST OF THE BLUEGRASS AND OUT OVER ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI WILL THREATEN THE CENTRAL KENTUCKY AREA LATER THIS MORNING AND INTO THE AFTERNOON HOURS. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME STRONG AND POSSIBLY SEVERE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR MORE INFORMATION. MOORpE
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 9:42 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
KYZ035>037-039>044-047>052-055>060-098-151500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LEXINGTON KY 940 AM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY UNTIL 400 PM EDT... AT 940 AM EDT....RADAR INDICATED A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM INDIANAPOLIS...TO 10 MILES WEST OF EVANSVILLE...AND THEN DOWN THROUGH KENTUCKY. THE LINE WAS MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 TO 30 MPH. THE STORMS WILL APPROACH THE EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY AREA AROUND THE NOON HOUR. HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. IF THESE STORMS SHOULD APPROACH YOUR AREA...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE UNTIL THEY PASS AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. ^ RIECK
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 10:27 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
KYZ024-025-028>034-038-045-046-053-INZ076>079-084-090>092-150845- NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY...SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...METRO LOUISVILLE SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NORTH WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1010 A
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 9:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crittenden | 42 min |
| Apr 15, 10:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 10:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 10:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 11:19 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 54 min |
| Apr 15, 12:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green | 26 min |
| Apr 15, 12:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Apr 15, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Pulaski, Russell | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 12:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Rockcastle | 52 min |
| Apr 15, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Wayne | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Laurel, McCreary | 50 min |
| Apr 15, 10:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 48 min |
| Apr 15, 10:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 47 min |
| Apr 15, 11:02 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 43 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.