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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 1997Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 5:30 PM EDT for Casey County, Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Casey County, KY, Lincoln County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:31 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, 5:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Countywide, KY	Several trees down as a squall line moved through.
Jun 13, 5:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Stanford, KY	Several trees down as a squall line moved through.

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, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 132132 RRA
SVRSDF
KYC045-137-132215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
530 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  CASEY COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  LINCOLN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  ELLISBURG BY 5:30 PM EDT
  HUSTONVILLE BY 5:40 PM EDT
  STANFORD BY 5:50 PM EDT
  ATTERSON BY 5:45 PM EDT

* WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF
SOMERSET IN NORTHERN CASEY COUNTY NEAR ELLISBURG.  ANOTHER SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ALONG THE CASEY AND TAYLOR COUNTY LINE.

THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OR IN^ THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE
A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS AND STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE UNTIL
THE STORM HAS PASSED.

JA

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, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 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

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:31 PM EDT, 59 minutes before

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

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

0315 PM    GARRETT                   KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/97   MEADE                          TREES UPROOTED NEAR
                                          GARRETT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:46 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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

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

0444 PM    RICHMOND                  KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   MADISON

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:47 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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

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

0444 PM    RICHMOND                  KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
06/13/97   MADISON

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:50 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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

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

0444 PM    5 S LAWRENCEBURG          KY   FLOODING
06/13/97   ANDERSON                       WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          3 RAINFALL IN PAST HOUR.
                                          ALSO FLOODING ACROSS
                                          PROPERTY AND WATER ACROSS
                                          COUNTY ROADS.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:55 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

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

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

0444 PM    5 S LAWRENCEBURG          KY   FLOODING
06/13/97   ANDERSON                       WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED
                                          3" RAINFALL IN PAST HOUR.
                                          ALSO FLOODING ACROSS
                                          PROPERTY AND WATER ACROSS
                                          COUNTY ROADS.

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, 4:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Madison	33 min
Jun 13, 5:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Madison	90 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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.