Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 100, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 1997, 10:06 PM EDT for Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 59 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
- Jul 27, 1997, 10:06 PM EDT (02:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 27, 1997, 11:05 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 10:09 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Pine Ridge, KY | Numerous trees and power lines were downed in the western part of the county. |
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 00:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 201 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1463 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -84 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.
NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 8:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 8:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 845 PM EDT SUN JUL 27 1997 WESTERN SEGMENT OF MCS CRUISING INTO NRN KY ATTM AND EXPECT CONTINUED SLOW WEAKENING TREND. THIS MAY TAKE AWHILE THOUGH AS BNA RAOB CHECKED IN WITH AN LI OF -8C AND A CAPE OF 4000 J/KG. CURRENT POP DISTRIBUTION LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. TEMPS LOOK GOOD AS WELL AND RIGHT NOW DO NOT PLAN ON UPDATING. WILL WATCH CONVECTIVE TRENDS AND MAKE MINOR ADJUSTMENTS IF NEEDED. NICE COLD FRONT FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WILL PUSH SOUTH THRU THE STATE MON NITE-EARLY TUESDAY FOLLOWED BY SOME FRESH AIR. TO GET THERE WE HAVE TO ENDURE ANOTHER ROUND OF TRW WITH FROPA TOMORROW NITE. JKL 72/92/68/84 5464 LOZ 72/94/70/86 4364 SES
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 27, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Powell | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan | 60 min |
| Jul 28, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jul 28, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.