Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 107, NWS Jackson, KY

August 4, 1997Breathitt County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1997, 5:04 PM EDT for Breathitt County, Kentucky. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 4, 1997, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 1997, 6:05 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Breathitt County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 4, 5:23 PM EDTHail 0.75Jackson, KY

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 text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 4, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike29 min
Aug 4, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMenifee26 min
Aug 4, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher48 min
Aug 4, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLWolfe48 min
Aug 4, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJohnson, Martin59 min
Aug 4, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLeslie62 min
Aug 4, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee44 min
Aug 4, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.