Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 21, 1997, 11:10 AM EST for Jessamine County, Madison County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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
- Feb 21, 1997, 11:10 AM EST (16:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 1997, 11:45 AM EST
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jessamine County, KY, Madison County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:10 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 8:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 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 211610 SVRSDF KYC113-151-211645- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1110 AM EST FRI FEB 21 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 AM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...JESSAMINE COUNTY...MADISON COUNTY AT 1105 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED FROM NEAR THE TOWN OF HALL IN SOUTHWEST JESSAMINE COUNTY TO AROUND LANCASTER IN GARRARD COUNTY...OR 15 TO 30 MILES SOUTH OF LEXINGTON. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH AND WILREACH NICHOLASVILLE BY 1115 AM...AND RICHMOND AND BEREA BETWEEN 1115 AND 1130 AM. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE STORMS. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. ONCE INSIDE... STAY AWAY FROM fWINDOWS. DO NOT GO NEAR DOWNED POWER LINES. FUNK/COX
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
Special weather statement, Feb 21, 10:58 AM EST, 12 minutes before
KYZ073-074-024-061-082-062-027-064-023-028-063-070-054-025-076- 075-026-078-034-072-038-065-071-046-211700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1056 AM EST (956 AM CST) FRI FEB 21 1997 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 58 HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL KENTUCKY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 58 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING KENTUCKY COUNTIES: LOGAN...BUTLER...OHIO...HANCOCK...BRECKINRIDGE...GRAYSON...EDMONSON ...WARREN...SIMPSON...ALLEN...BARREN...HART...HARDIN...MEADE... JEFFERSON...BULLITT...LARUE...GREEN...METCALFE...MONROE... CUMBERLAND...ADAIR...TAYLOR...MARION...NELSON...WASHINGTON... SPENCER...SHELBY...RUSSELL...AND CLINTON. AT 1045 AM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON TO NEAR SOMERSET. THE REMAINDER OF THE COUNTIES ORIGINALLY INCLUDED IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 58 CONTINUE IN EFFECT UNTIL 1PM EST. OTHER PERIOD OF THUNDERSTORMS...POSSIBLY SEVERE...IS POSSIBLE AGIAN THIS AFTERNOON. RNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 31 min |
| Feb 21, 8:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 31 min |
| Feb 21, 8:22 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 38 min |
| Feb 21, 10:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Lincoln | 35 min |
| Feb 21, 11:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.