Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Louisville, KY

July 28, 1997Simpson County, Warren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT for Simpson County, Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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 28, 1997, 6:50 PM CDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 28, 1997, 7:35 PM CDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Simpson County, KY, Warren County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 83 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: 3105 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1167 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.1
Supercell composite: -0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 28, 1:04 PM CDT, 5 hours 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
204 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0200 PM    MODOC                     KY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/97   CUMBERLAND                     REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:05 PM CDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
204 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0200 PVM    MODOC                     KY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/28/97   CUMBERLAND                     REPORTED BY NWS SPOTTER

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:47 PM CDT, 5 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
247 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0205 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97   CLINTON                        SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          THE COUNTY. REPORTED BY
                                          COUNTY DISPATCH.

Local storm report, Jul 28, 1:48 PM CDT, 5 hours 2 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
247 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0205 PM                              KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/28/97   CLINTON                        SEVERAL TREES DOWN ACROSS
                                          THE COUNTY. REPORTED BY
                                          COUNTY DISPATCH.

Local storm report, Jul 28, 3:11 PM CDT, 3 hours 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
411 PM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0406 PM    RUSSELLVILLE              KY   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/28/97   LOGAN                          HAIL REPORTED WEST OF
                                          RUSSELLVILLE ON HWY 68

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 8:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	24 min
Jul 28, 12:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	31 min
Jul 28, 1:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Clinton, Cumberland	63 min
Jul 28, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Metcalfe	34 min
Jul 28, 2:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	31 min
Jul 28, 2:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	46 min
Jul 28, 3:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren, Metcalfe	49 min
Jul 28, 3:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	66 min
Jul 28, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	35 min
Jul 28, 3:43 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	47 min
Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	20 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997 Every 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.