Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 11:15 PM CST for Cumberland County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 11:15 PM CST (05:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 12:00 AM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cumberland County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1269 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 330 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 5.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 020520 RRA SVRSDF KYC057-020600- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1215 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EST/ 12 AM CST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...CUMBERLAND COUNTY AT 1215 AM EST/1115 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 50 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET...OR SOUTHEAST OF EDMONTON IN METCALFE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH AND WILL REACH BURKESVILLE AND AMANDAVILLE BETWEEN 1130 AND 1140 PM CST. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED ARfEA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. STUREY
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, Mar 1, 11:12 PM CST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1212 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1200 AM VNCTY GLASGOW KY SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
3/2/97 BARREN CHAIRS REPORTED
FLYING THROUGH THE
AIR. REPORTED BY
BOWLING GREEN KSP.
RNKLocal storm report, Mar 1, 11:13 PM CST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1212 AM EST SUN MAR 2 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
1200 AM VNCTY GLASGOW KY SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
3/2/97 BARREN CHAIRS REPORTED
FLYING THROUGH THE
^ AIR. REPORTED BY
BOWLING GREEN KSP.
RNKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:37 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 38 min |
| Mar 1, 7:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 30 min |
| Mar 1, 7:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Meade | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Oldham | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:13 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Trimble | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:19 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Shelby | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Hardin, Larue, Nelson, Spencer | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 7:51 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Franklin | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Metcalfe | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:36 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Boyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette, Jessamine, Woodford | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Scott | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:48 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Mar 1, 10:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 10:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Meade | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hardin | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:37 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Ohio | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe, Monroe | 60 min |
| Mar 1, 10:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Shelby, Spencer | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:54 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Henry, Oldham, Trimble | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 11:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 40 min |
| Mar 1, 11:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 1, 11:27 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 1, 11:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln, Madison | 90 min |
| Mar 1, 11:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Clark | 90 min |
| Mar 1, 11:30 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Casey | 90 min |
| Mar 1, 11:34 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 26 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.