Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1997, 12:16 PM EST for Breathitt County, Morgan County, Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 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
- Feb 21, 1997, 12:16 PM EST (17:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1997, 12:50 PM EST
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Breathitt County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 12:20 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Jackson, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 11:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 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 Feb 21, 10:56 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 10:56 AM EST, 1 hour 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1055 AM EST FRI FEB 21 1997
RATHER BUSY THIS MORNING WITH THREAT OF SVR WX SO WILL KEEP THIS
BRIEF. DOWNWARD TRANPSORT OF MOMENTUM PRIMARY THREAT AS LOW-MID LEVEL
WIND FIELDS QUITE STRONG. LDS INDICATING LITTLE IN THE WAY OF CG
LIGHTNING. SO FAR...CONVECTION ACROSS THE CWA HAS BEEN ONLY MARGINALLY
SVR.
FIRST PERIOD LOOKS GOOD...XCPT POPS COULD BE HIGHER AS JUST ABOUT
EVERYONE SHOULD GET SHRA WITH THE LINE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. BY MID-
AFTERNOON WE SHOULD GET A BREAK IN THE ACTION LINE PROGRESSES EWD. NEW
WATCH JUST ISSUED AND WOULD MAKE COSMETIC ADJUSTMENTS WITH THE UPDATE
TO REFLECT DECREASING PRECIP CHCS BY 20Z.
TEMPS POPS
JKL 72/49/45 +64
LOZ 70/49/45 +64
SESThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 10:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 49 min |
| Feb 21, 10:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 10:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 32 min |
| Feb 21, 11:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 31 min |
| Feb 21, 11:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 34 min |
| Feb 21, 11:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 44 min |
| Feb 21, 11:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 34 min |
| Feb 21, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Perry | 34 min |
| Feb 21, 12:31 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 34 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.