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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Louisville, KY

July 19, 1997Ohio County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1997, 5:58 PM CDT for Ohio 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
Jul 19, 1997, 5:58 PM CDT (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 1997, 6:30 PM CDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Ohio County, KY

The radar

The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 152 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 91 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -8 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-186 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
1 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 192258 RRA
SVRSDF
KYC183-192330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
658 PM EDT (558 PM CDT) SAT JUL 19 1997

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR
  WESTERN OHIO COUNTY - NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 630 PM CDT (730 PM EDT)
 
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  HEFLIN AND BEDA IMMEDIATELY
  CENTERTOWN BEFORE 615 PM CDT

* AT 657 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5
MILES NORTHWEST OF HARTFORD...WHICH IS 40 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING
GREEN. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHWEST AT 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.


ACS/VLD

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.