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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Louisville, KY

March 28, 1997Crawford County, Perry County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 7:55 PM EST for Crawford County, Perry County, Indiana. 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: Mar 28, 1997, 7:55 PM EST (00:55 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 8:30 PM EST
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crawford County, IN, Perry County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:59 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
Mar 28, 6:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 1331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 223 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 390 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 11.6

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 290057 RRA
SVRSDF
INC025-123-175-290130-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
755 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  830 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
 
   ...CRAWFORD COUNTY...PERRY COUNTY...WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 755 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STORMS NEAR
BROMER...TO MENTOR...TO EVANSTON...WHICH IS 45 MILES WEST AND NORTHWEST
OF LOUISVILLE. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL AFFECT LILLY
DALE...ENGLISH AND SALEM BY 815 PM EST.
 
DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
 
A TORNADO WATCH 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.
 
RC/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, 55 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, 53 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	Jefferson	43 min
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	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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 1997 Every 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.