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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 1997Spencer County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 3:35 PM EDT for Spencer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1997, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1997, 4:10 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Spencer County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 13, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 204 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 673 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1997-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 68 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
673 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
526 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.9

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKAnderson33 min
Jun 13, 4:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKAnderson, Jessamine, Woodford92 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKMadison33 min
Jun 13, 5:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMKMadison90 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCasey, Lincoln45 min
Jun 13, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLogan31 min
Jun 13, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler33 min
Jun 13, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKButler, Simpson, Warren32 min
Jun 13, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKEdmonson, Grayson42 min
Jun 13, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison30 min
Jun 13, 2:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKCrawford, Perry30 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHarrison33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.