Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 134, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1997, 2:22 PM EDT for Bullitt County, Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 68 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 21, 1997, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullitt County, KY, Jefferson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:22 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 21, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Jeffersontown, KY | Several trees were blown down. |
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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 411 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
365 WUUS1 KSDF 211823 SVRSDF KYC029-111-211925- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 222 PM EDT SAT JUN 21 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL AND EASTERN BULLITT COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY CENTRAL AND EASTERN JEFFERSON COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED MIDDLETOWN BY 230 PM EDT JEFFERSONTOWN BY 230 PM EDT MT. WASHINGTON BBY 240 PM EDT * AT 225 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE JUST WEST OF INERSTATE 65 IN JEFFERSON AND BULLITT COUNTIES NEAR TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 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. REITMEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 12:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 12:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 60 min |
| Jun 21, 12:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 61 min |
| Jun 21, 1:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 59 min |
| Jun 21, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 64 min |
| Jun 21, 2:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 68 min |
| Jun 21, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Oldham | 77 min |
| Jun 21, 4:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Warren | 65 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.