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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 114, NWS Louisville, KY

June 2, 1997Boyle County, Marion County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1997, 6:25 PM EDT for Boyle County, Marion County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
Jun 2, 1997, 6:25 PM EDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Boyle County, KY, Marion County, KY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 2, 6:30 PM EDTHail 0.75Perryville, 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 nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 212 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 70 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:41 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
543 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PvM    STANFORD                  KY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          DISPATCH
Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:43 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
543 PM EDT MON JUN 02 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0540 PM    STANFORD                  KY   .75 INCH HAIL
06/02/97   LINCOLN                        REPORTED BY COUNTY
                                          DISPATCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey, Lincoln31 min
Jun 2, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGarrard16 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.