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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Louisville, KY

March 28, 1997Jefferson County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 7:15 PM EST for Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 min. 2 reports 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, 7:15 PM EST (00:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 8:00 PM EST
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Jefferson County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:18 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, 7:20 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Shively, KY
Mar 28, 7:20 PM EST	Hail 1.75	Valley Station, 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 290016 RRA
SVRSDF
KYC111-290100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
715 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
AT 712 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
SOUTHWEST JEFFERSON COUNTY NEAR PLEASURE RIDGE PARK. THIS STORM IS
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE
IMMEDIATELY AND WILL AFFECT ANCHORAGE AND PROSPECT BEFORE 730 PM EST.
 
LARGE HAIL IS LIKELY WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
 
A TORNADO WxATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  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.
 
TF/VLD

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, 15 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
RL

Local storm report, Mar 28, 7:02 PM EST, 13 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
RL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 28, 7:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	43 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, 7:17 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, 8:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Oldham	40 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

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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.