Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 165, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 2:40 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 17, 1997, 2:40 PM EDT (18:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:42 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:55 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lexington, KY | Police reported several trees and power lines 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
455 WUUS1 KSDF 171841 RRA SVRSDF KYC067-171930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 240 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR FAYETTE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED METRO LEXINGTON IMMEDIATELY GREENDALE AND MATTOXTOWN BEFORE 300 PM EDT * AT 240 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF LEXINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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. DEWALD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette | 35 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.