Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 6:15 PM EST for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 24, 1997, 6:15 PM EST (23:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 24, 1997, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 6:30 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Campbellsville, 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 242316 RRA SVRSDF KYC217-242345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 615 PM EST FRI JAN 24 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 645 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...TAYLOR COUNTY AT 6:13 PM EST...WEATHER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ON THE COUNTY LINE OF GREEN AND TAYLOR COUNTIES. THE STORM WAS 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CAMPBELLSVILLE...45 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORM WILL MOVE INTO TAYLOR COUNTY BY 6:15 PM. LARGE HAIL TO 3/4 INCH HAS BEEN REPORTEDb WITH THIS STORM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH...MOVE TO SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. ONCE INSIDE... STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT GO NEAR DOWNED POWER LINES. MCT/VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 26 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 28 min |
| Jan 24, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 25 min |
| Jan 24, 6:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 37 min |
| Jan 24, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.