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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Louisville, KY

July 14, 1997Edmonson County, Hart County, Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 1997, 8:05 PM CDT for Edmonson County, Hart County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 3 reports 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, 8:05 PM CDT (01:05 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 1997, 8:40 PM CDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Edmonson County, KY, Hart County, KY, Warren County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60	Smiths Grove, KY	A porch was blown of f a home.
Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Cedar Spg, KY	Dispatch reports several trees down.
Jul 14, 8:25 PM CDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Cash, KY	DES reports several trees 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 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 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

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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, Jul 14, 4:13 PM CDT, 3 hours 52 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, 3 hours 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, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge	42 min
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, 8:18 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

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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.