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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 6:40 PM EDT for Bath County, Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min. 4 reports 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 17, 1997, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bath County, KY, Fleming County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 6:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hill Top, KY | Trees were downed. |
| Aug 17, 6:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Sharpsburg, KY | Numerous large trees were downed. A billboard was also blown over and power lines were downed. |
| Aug 17, 6:55 PM EDT | Tornado F0 | Owingsville, KY | The tornado downed several trees. One large tree fell on a house and caused extensive structural damage. |
| Aug 17, 7:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Muses Mills, KY | Trees were downed. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 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 Aug 17, 1:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 200 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 CONVECTION FIRING RAPIDLY AT 1730Z SO DISC WILL BE BRIEF. CATEGORICAL POPS FOR THIS EVENING SHOULD SUFFICE BASED ON LATE AFTERNOON RADAR TRENDS. TEMPS COOLER ON MONDAY WITH NW SFC FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT WITH GRADUAL CLEARING POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON. STILL MAY BE A FEW LINGERING -SHRA MON MORNING. DRY TUESDAY. WOULD LIKE TO SEE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THE EVENING ZFP BASED ON DEWPOINTS IN THE MIDDLE 70S...SLOW MOVING FRONT...AND JET IMPINGING ON FRONT. HAVE ALREADY SEEN (VIA RCS PRODUCT) WATER LOADED STORMS. THIS MAY TURN OUT TO BE ANOTHER HYDRO EVENT. WILL MONITOR IFLOWS. JKL 67/82/60/85 +300 LOZ 66/83/63/86 +300 INGRAM
In the hours before
Local storm report, Aug 17, 5:50 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Rowan | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 61 min |
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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.