Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 28, 1997, 8:53 PM EST for Henry County, Shelby County, Kentucky. It was in force for 52 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, 8:53 PM EST (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Henry County, KY, Shelby County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 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, 9:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | New Castle, 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, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 290156 RRA SVRSDF KYC029-103-211-215-223-290245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 853 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...BULLITT COUNTY...HENRY COUNTY...SHELBY COUNTY ...SPENCER COUNTY...TRIMBLE COUNTY AT 853 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR CURRENTLY INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED COUNTIES...AND ANOTHER LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH 945 PM EST. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES. 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 CONDIdTIONS. 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, 8:00 PM EST, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 800 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 755 PM BEDFORD KY 2 INCH HAIL 3/28/97 TRIMBLE KIRKPATRICK
Local storm report, Mar 28, 8:04 PM EST, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 800 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 755 PM BEDFORD KY 2 INCH HAIL 3/28/97 TRIMBLE KIRKPATRICK
Local storm report, Mar 28, 8:10 PM EST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 810 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 745 PM HAMMERSVILLE KY MAJOR DAMAGE AND 3/28/97 HART NUMEROUS INJURIES LASHER
Local storm report, Mar 28, 8:13 PM EST, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 810 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT... DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS... 745 PM HAMMERSVILLE KY MAJOR DAMAGE AND 3/28/97 HART NUMEROUS INJURIES LASHER
Local storm report, Mar 28, 8:45 PM EST, 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
845 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
730 PM CAMPBELLSVILLE KY HWY 210 BLOCKED
3/28/97 LARUE/TAYLOR CO LINE BY NUMEROUS TREES
AND POWER LINES.
ALSO HOME AND
CHURCH DAMAGE IN
THE AREA.
KIRKPATRICKLocal storm report, Mar 28, 8:50 PM EST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
845 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
TIME EST .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT...
DATE ....COUNTY LOCATION.... ...REMARKS...
730 PM CAMPBELLSVILLE KY HWY 210 BLOCKED
3/28/97 LARUE/TAYLOR CO LINE BY NUMEROUS TREES
AND POWER LINES.
T ALSO HOME AND
CHURCH DAMAGE IN
THE AREA.
KIRKPATRICKThe 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, 7:15 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, 8:35 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 | 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.