Tornado Warning 5, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Mar 2, 1997, 1:28 AM EST (06:28 UTC)

Expired

Mar 2, 1997, 2:15 AM EST

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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.

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TTAA00 KJKL 020629 RRA
TORJKL
KYC165-173-197-020715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
128 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...

IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

   ...MENIFEE
   ...MONTGOMERY
   ...POWELL
 
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO TOUCHDOWN IN THE
JEFFERSONVILLE AREA ALONG WITH FUNNEL CLOUDS IN STANTON.  RESIDENTS OF
STANTON...FRENCHBURG...AND LUCKY BRIDGE AND JEFFERSONVILE SHOULD BE IN
THEIR BASEMENTS.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.

INGRAM

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.