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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 126, NWS Louisville, KY

June 13, 1997Barren County, Hart County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1997, 7:30 PM CDT for Barren County, Hart County, Kentucky. 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, 7:30 PM CDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Barren County, KY, Hart County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 7:30 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, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -72 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1059 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 4.5

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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, 3 hours 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, 3:47 PM CDT, 3 hours 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, 3:50 PM CDT, 3 hours 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, 3:55 PM CDT, 3 hours 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.

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:50 PM CDT, 2 hours 40 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
                                          CLOSED

Local storm report, Jun 13, 4:51 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 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
                                          CLOSED

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Metcalfe	33 min
Jun 13, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland	30 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.