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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 120, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 1997Madison County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 4:27 PM EDT for Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Madison County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 4:44 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 175	Richmond, 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 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 13, 3:41 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 3:47 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
341 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

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

0330 PM    RAMSEY                    IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   HARRISON                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

0330 PM    ELIZABETH                 IN   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   HARRISON                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Anderson	33 min
Jun 13, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Spencer	35 min
Jun 13, 4:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Anderson, Jessamine, Woodford	92 min
Jun 13, 5:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Madison	90 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey, Lincoln	45 min
Jun 13, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	31 min
Jun 13, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler	33 min
Jun 13, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Simpson, Warren	32 min
Jun 13, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson, Grayson	42 min
Jun 13, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	30 min
Jun 13, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	30 min
Jun 13, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Harrison	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.