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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY

January 22, 1997Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 22, 1997, 6:03 PM EST for Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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
Jan 22, 1997, 6:03 PM EST (23:03 UTC)
Expired
Jan 22, 1997, 6:30 PM EST
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Hardin County, KY, Meade County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 195 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-01-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 12:00Z on 1997-01-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 436 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1817 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
436 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
518 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 222306 RRA
SVRSDF
KYC093-163-222330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
603 PM EST WED JAN 22 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY...SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY
 
AT 6:00...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SW OF
LOUISVILLE NEAR BIG SPRING...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STORM
WILL AFFECT FLAHERTY...WINE GROVE...AND RADCLIFF BY 6:20 PM. WITH THIS
SEVERE STORM...THE MAIN THREAT IS LARGE HAIL.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS OCCUR...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING.  GO TO
THE INTERIOR SECTION...OR PREFERABLY A BASEMENT OR LOWEST LEVEL
IF POSSIBLE.  DO NOT STAND NEAR WINDOWS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY AWAY FROM
ALL DOWNED WIRES.
 
MCT/<ACS

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.