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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Louisville, KY

January 24, 1997Barren County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 5:43 PM CST for Barren County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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
Jan 24, 1997, 5:43 PM CST (23:43 UTC)
Expired
Jan 24, 1997, 6:30 PM CST
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Louisville, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Barren County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:43 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jan 24, 5:50 PM CSTTornado F1Wisdom, KY
Jan 24, 5:50 PM CSTHail 1.25Wisdom, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 119 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 24, 4:04 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren, Warren26 min
Jan 24, 4:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKBarren28 min
Jan 24, 4:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKFayette25 min
Jan 24, 5:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKGreen37 min
Jan 24, 5:15 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMKTaylor30 min
Jan 24, 5:57 PM CSTSevere 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.