Alert archive / Indiana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 7:02 PM EST for Jefferson County, Indiana; Trimble County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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
- Mar 28, 1997, 7:02 PM EST (00:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, IN, Trimble County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:55 PM EST | Hail 2 | Bedford, KY |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
408 WUUS1 KSDF 290004 RRA SVRSDF INC077-KYC223-290045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 702 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 745 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...NORTHERN TRIMBLE COUNTY AT 700 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR PAYNESVILLE WHICH IS 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUISVILLE. THE STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL REACH MADISON BY 720 PM EST AND CHINA AND MANVILLE BY 725 PM EST. LARGER THAN GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. 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.
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 28, 7:00 PM EST, 2 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
700 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
654 PM KY TORNADO ON GROUND
3/28/97 HARDIN ONE HOME DESTROYED
OTHER HOMES DAMAGED
IN ELIZABETHTOWN
RLLocal storm report, Mar 28, 7:02 PM EST, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
700 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
654 PM KY TORNADO ON GROUND
3/28/97 HARDIN ONE HOME DESTROYED
OTHER HOMES DAMAGED
D IN ELIZABETHTOWN
RLThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 7:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 7:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Floyd, Harrison | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 8:16 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clark, Scott, Washington | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:44 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 7:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 7:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Larue | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 7:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 7:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Marion | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 7:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Woodford | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 8:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 8:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 8:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Russell | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Spencer | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 9:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 9:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 9:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 9:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 9:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 9:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Larue, Taylor | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 9:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 10:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 10:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 10:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 10:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 10:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 10:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 10:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Warren | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 10:39 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Mercer | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 10:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 10:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 10:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 11:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.