Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 146, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1997, 1:47 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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 21, 1997, 1:47 PM CDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1997, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1683 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 211848 RRA SVRSDF KYC227-211930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 247 PM EDT (147 PM CDT) MON JUL 21 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN WARREN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 230 PM CDT (330 PM EDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED AREAS NEAR AND SOUTH OF BOWLING GREEN THROUGH 230 PM CDT * AT 145 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM BOWLING GREEN AND SOUTHWARD. THE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT ONLY AROUND 5 MPH. SEVERAL TREES WERE REPORTED DOWN IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY. 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. KOCH/SCHOLZ &
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 21, 1:04 PM CDT, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
201 PM EDT MON JUL 14 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
140 PM\ BOWLING GREEN KY WIND DAMAGE
07/21/97 WARREN A FEW TREES AND
POWER LINES DOWN
KOCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 21, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 30 min |
| Jul 21, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 32 min |
| Jul 21, 2:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 34 min |
| Jul 21, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 30 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.