Tornado Warning 1, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 3:01 PM EST (20:01 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 3:50 PM EST

In force

49 min

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Menifee County, KY, Powell County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KJKL 012001 RRA
TORJKL
KYC165-197-012050-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
301 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 350 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

   ...MENIFEE
   ...POWELL
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR STANTON THAT WILL AFFECT
THE TOWNS OF MEANS AND FRENCHBURG. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY!
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID
WINDOWS.

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESFORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

SES/CEG

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every tornado warning in 1997Tornadoes in 1997

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.