Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 21, 1997, 2:28 PM CDT for Butler County, Logan 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 21, 1997, 2:28 PM CDT (19:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 21, 1997, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KY, Logan County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:31 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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 211928 RRA SVRSDF KYC031-141-212000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 328 PM EDT (228 PM CDT) MON JUL 21 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN BUTLER COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 300 PM CDT (400 PM EDT) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED RICHELIEU BY 3:30 PM EDT SUGAR GROVE BY 3:30 PM EDT * AT 225 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 15 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN OR 1 MILE WEST OF SUGAR GROVE AND RICHELIEU. THE STORMS WERE DRIFTING NORTHEAST AROUND 5 MILES AN HOUR AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINFALL. 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, 1 hour 24 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, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 43 min |
| Jul 21, 2:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 30 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
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.