Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1997, 7:18 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 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
- Jul 14, 1997, 7:18 PM CDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 1997, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Breckinridge County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:45 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Countywide, KY | Trees down across various parts of the county. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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
- 3428 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1180 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 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 150017 RRA SVRSDF KYC027-150100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 818 PM EDT (718 PM CDT) MON JUL 14 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY - NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 800 PM CDT (900 PM EDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED GARFIELD AND HARDINSBURG BY 735 PM CDT HENSLEY BY 745 PM CDT * AT 714 CDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CLOVERPORT. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE CAPABLE WITH THIS STORM 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.B REC/RDC
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, Jul 14, 4:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
513 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0830 PM BRANDENBURG KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 MEADE SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN
BRANDENBURG AND
PAYNESBURG.
0830 PM HARTFORD KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 OHIO 2 TREES DOWN NEAR BEAVER
DAM AND HARTFORD.
0845 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 BRECKINRIDGE SPOTTED REPORTS OF TREES
DOWN THROUGHOUT THE
COUNTY.
0845 PM RINEYVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 HARDIN FEW TREES DOWN IN
RINEYVILLE.Local storm report, Jul 14, 5:05 PM CDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
605 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0900 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 BUTLER TREES DOWN IN SEVERAL
LOCATIONS ACROSS THE
COUNTY.
0920 PM HODGENVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 LARUE HAM OPERATOR REPORTED 2
TREES DOWN BETWEEN
TONIEVILLE AND
HODGENVILLE.
0925 PM SMITHS GROVE KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 WARREN PORCH BLOWN OFF HOME IN
SMITHS GROVE.
0925 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 EDMONSON A FEW TREES DOWN IN THE
SOUTHERN PART OF THE
COUNTY. REPORTED BY COUNTY
DISPATCH.
0925 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
07/14/97 HART TREES DOWN IN NORTHERN
HART COUNTY. REPORTED BY
COUNTY DES.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 7:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Grayson | 61 min |
| Jul 14, 8:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Hart, Warren | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 32 min |
| Jul 14, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 33 min |
| Jul 14, 8:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Simpson | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every 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.