Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1997, 10:04 AM EDT for Lincoln County, Kentucky. It was in force for 11 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
- Aug 25, 1997, 10:04 AM EDT (14:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1997, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1223 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 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 251404 RRA SVRSDF KYC137-251415- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1004 AM EDT MON AUG 25 1997 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1015 AM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED WAYNESBURG IMMEDIATELY * AT 1002 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH OF WAYNESBURG...WHICH IS 15 MILES OF NORTH OF SOMERSET. THE STORM IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. 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
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, Aug 25, 9:18 AM EDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
919 AM EDT MON AUG 25 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 AM LAWRENCEBURG KY .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97 ANDERSON
0800 AM SALVISA KY .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97 MERCERLocal storm report, Aug 25, 9:19 AM EDT, 45 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
919 AM EDT MON AUG 25 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 AM LAWRENCEBURG KY .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97 ANDERSON
0800 AM SALVISA KY .75 INCH HAIL
08/25/97 MERCERThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 7:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 9:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 31 min |
| Aug 25, 9:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 18 min |
| Aug 25, 9:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Aug 25, 10:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hart | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 27 min |
| Aug 25, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 33 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.