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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Louisville, KY

January 24, 1997Fayette County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 5:50 PM EST for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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 24, 1997, 5:50 PM EST (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 1997, 6:15 PM EST
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Fayette County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 285 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 1997-01-24Temperature 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 1997-01-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 508 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
480 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
508 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
610 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.

713 
WUUS1 KSDF 242251 RRA
SVRSDF
KYC067-242315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
550 PM EST FRI JAN 24 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
 
   ...FAYETTE COUNTY
 
AT 5:50 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES
WEST OF LEXINGTON...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS
REPORTED WITH THE STORM. THE STORM WILL AFFECT LEXINGTON AND SURROUNDING
COMMUNITIES OVER THE NEXT 30 MINUTES.
 
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/VLD

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 5:04 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Warren26 min
Jan 24, 5:32 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren28 min
Jan 24, 6:08 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen37 min
Jan 24, 6:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTaylor30 min
Jan 24, 6:43 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Metcalfe47 min
Jan 24, 6:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen33 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.