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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 169, NWS Louisville, KY

August 25, 1997Jessamine County, Mercer County, Woodford County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1997, 7:53 AM EDT for Jessamine County, Mercer County, Woodford County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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 25, 1997, 7:53 AM EDT (11:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1997, 8:25 AM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jessamine County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Woodford County, KY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 25, 8:00 AM EDTHail 0.75Salvisa, KYDime size hail reported.

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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 188 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1997-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 14 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1997-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-112 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1328 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 8:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge35 min
Aug 25, 9:14 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson31 min
Aug 25, 9:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBoyle18 min
Aug 25, 9:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLincoln27 min
Aug 25, 10:04 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKLincoln11 min
Aug 25, 10:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGrayson28 min
Aug 25, 11:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGrayson, Hart33 min
Aug 25, 12:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart27 min
Aug 25, 1:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKHart29 min
Aug 25, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren33 min
Aug 25, 10:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKDubois33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.