Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 6:12 PM CDT for Butler 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, 6:12 PM CDT (23:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1997, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:13 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, 6:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Countywide, 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 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 CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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.
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, 3:46 PM CDT, 2 hours 26 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 MADISONLocal storm report, Jun 13, 3:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 25 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 MADISONLocal storm report, Jun 13, 3:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 22 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, 3:55 PM CDT, 2 hours 17 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, 4:50 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
550 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0540 PM RICHMOND KY FLOODING
06/13/97 MADISON NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET
FLOODING IN
RICHMOND...SEVERAL ROADS
CLOSEDLocal storm report, Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
550 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0540 PM RICHMOND KY FLOODING
06/13/97 MADISON NUMEROUS REPORTS OF STREET
FLOODING IN
RICHMOND...SEVERAL ROAtDS
CLOSEDThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 13, 1:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 2:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Spencer | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 3:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Jessamine, Woodford | 92 min |
| Jun 13, 3:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Madison | 90 min |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 45 min |
| Jun 13, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 31 min |
| Jun 13, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Simpson, Warren | 32 min |
| Jun 13, 6:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Grayson | 42 min |
| Jun 13, 12:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 1:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 30 min |
| Jun 13, 2:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 33 min |
Nearby
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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.