Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 117, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 1:50 PM EST for Crawford County, Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 30 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 13, 1997, 1:50 PM EST (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 2:20 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Crawford County, IN, Perry County, IN
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | St Croix, IN | EMA reported several trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 1392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 670 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 2:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 3:08 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Jessamine, Woodford | 92 min |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 4:05 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Madison | 90 min |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Grayson | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 12:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 2:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 33 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.