Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 96, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1997, 10:28 PM EDT for Hardin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 30, 1997, 10:28 PM EDT (02:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hardin County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -236 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 433 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 010227 RRA SVRSDF KYC093-010300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1028 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...HARDIN COUNTY AT 1025 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 40 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE NEAR SUMMIT. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE...GLENDALE...NOLIN...AND SONORBY 1040 PM EDT AND ELIZABTHTOWN BY 1045 PM EDT 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. RNK
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
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 6:35 PM EDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
INZ076>079-083-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 635 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN AFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT EDT... A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNITES OF SOUTHERN INDIANA...DUBOIS...ORANGE...WASHINGTON...SCOTT...AND JEFFERSON. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY ACROSS SOUTHERN ILLINOIS...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SOME OF THESE STORMS TO PRODUCE ISOLATED TORNADOES DOES EXIST THIS EVENING. YOU SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER IS EVENING. MCT
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 10:05 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
INZ076>079-083-010400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1005 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN AFFECT FOR PARTS OF SOUTHERN INDIANA UNTIL 12 MIDNIGHT EDT FOR DUBOIS/ORANGE/WASHINGTON/SCOTT AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES... THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL PUSH THROUGH SOUTHERN INDIANA OVER THE NEXT 2-4 HOURS. STRONG WINDS TO 60-70 MPH AND LARGE HAIL...AS WELL AS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STORMS. A STORM SPOTTER IN CRAWFORD COUNTY REPORTED WINDS TO 67 MPH. MCT
Local storm report, Apr 30, 10:06 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1006 PM EDT WED APR 30 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0900 PM CURBY IN 67 MPH TSTM GUST
04/30/97 CRAWFORD SPOTTER ALSO SAW FUNNEL
CLOUD THAT NEVER TOUCHED
DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 10:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 10:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 10:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 10:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 11:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Warren | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 11:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 11:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 42 min |
| May 1, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 38 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.