Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 129, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1997, 12:38 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 16, 1997, 12:38 PM EDT (16:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1997, 1:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:41 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1067 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 161637 RRA SVRSDF KYC093-161710- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1238 PM EDT MON JUN 16 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 110 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED ROGERSVILLE BY 12:45 PM EDT AT 1235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR VINE GROVE OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH AND WILL REACH ROGERSVILLE BY 1245 PM EDT. 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. X KOCH/WILSON
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
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076>079-083- 084-089>092-170000- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1120 AM EDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A SOUTHERLY FLOW OF WARM AND MOIST AIR WILL FUNNELL INTO THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WHILE A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE WEST LATER TODAY...BEFORE STALLING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE MOIST... UNSTABLE AIRMASS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE... ESPECIALLY IF THE SUN POPS BACK OUT FOR A TIME LATER IN THE DAY. IF THE THUNDERSTORMS BECOME SEVERE THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO LIKELY. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND/OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. STUREY
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 11:21 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076>079-083- 084-089>092-170000- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1120 AM EDT MON JUN 16 1997 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS ALL OF SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA AND CENTRAL KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A SOUTHERLY FLOW OF WARM AND MOIST AIR WILL FUNNELL INTO THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WHILE A COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA FROM THE WEST LATER TODAY...BEFORE STALLING. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP IN THE MOIST... UNSTABLE AIRMASS. A FEW OF THE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE... ESPECIALLY IF THE SUN POPS BACK OUT FOR A TIME LATER IN THE DAY. IF THE THUNDERSTORMS BECOME SEVERE THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO LIKELY. ^ THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAYX TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AND/OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING. STUREY
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.