Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 5:38 PM EDT for Bracken County, Kentucky; Clermont County, Ohio. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1997, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1997, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bracken County, KY, Clermont County, OH
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bradford, KY | Trees downed across Rt 8. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 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 KILN 022137 RRA
SVRILN
KYC023-OHC025-022230-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
538 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
...CLERMONT COUNTY
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
...BRACKEN COUNTY
AT 536 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON
DOPPLER RADAR 21 MILES SOUTH SOUTHEAST OF BATAVIA OR 6 MILES NORTH
OF BROOKSVILLE MOVING WEST AT 10 MPH.
THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
BRADFORD BY 600 PM EDT
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SINCE THEY CAN EASILY SHATTER IN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES
UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
WILKINSONWhat 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.
NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 3:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT MON JUN 2 1997 QUSAI-STATIONARY UPR LO OVR S CNTR TN/NRN AL 12Z THIS MRNG WITH CYC E-NE FLO OVR OH. ILN H5 TEMPS HV COOLED 3 DEG FM -12 TO -15 DEG THIS MRNG. SCTD HVY RAIN PRODUCING TSTMS DVLPG OVR WV/SE OH NE KY WHERE GOOD MSTR CVRGC...LI/S -6...WHERE GOOD SS HAS BEEN OBSVRD. LTST WV IMGRY SHWS S/WV ROTATING ARND E SIDE OF UPR LO THRU ERN TN. THIS FEATURE XPCTD TO ROTATE INTO OH VLY THIS EVE...SHUD AID TSTM DVLPMNT THIS EVE OVR SRN OH AND NRN KY WHERE LKLY POPS LOOK INORDER. GIVEN XPCTD DWPTS PREFER WRMR LOW TEMPS ASCD WITH FWC GUID TNGT. TSTMS DUMPING 2 TO 3 INCHES PER HOUR...IN VERY MOIST AMS...THEREFORE PREFER MAINTAINING FFA FOR SW OH...S CNTRL OH/NE KY TNGT. MODELS SIMILAIR OPENING UP CLOSED LO AND MOVING IT E ACRS SE U.S. AS EMBEDDED S/WV DROPS S ACRS OH. BAND OF MSTR AND GOOD PE/S DROPS S INTO CNTRL OH TNGT AND SRN OH...ERLY ON TUE. XPCT CONTD SHWRS AND TSTMS OVR THE S TUE WITH DRYING INTO THE NW BY AFTN. AGN PREFER FWC MOS NUMBERS WITH TUE HI/S. ENTIRE RGN DRIES OUT TUE NGT WITH NGM AND RGG INTO AREA AND 30 PERCENT MN RH INTO NW OH. IN NW FLO S/WV DROPS SE INTO LWR OH VLY BY 00Z THU WITH BEST MSTR RMNNG S OF OH RVR. AT THIS POINT PREFER TO KEEP FCST DRY ACRS AREA WITH WK LIFT AND MSTR STAYING TO THE S. CVG 063 075/059 073/055 752 DAY 060 071/055 070/053 652 CMH 061 070/056 071/053 752 RANDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 8:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Madison | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:17 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Logan | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 8:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Gallia | 5 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Delaware | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 9:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Union | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Licking | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Scioto | 118 min |
| Jun 2, 6:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Franklin | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 6:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Fairfield | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Pike | 112 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.