Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 97, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1997, 10:32 PM EDT for Trimble County, Kentucky; Jefferson County, Indiana. It was in force for 28 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, 10:32 PM EDT (02:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1997, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, IN, Trimble 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, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -452 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1959 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 321 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 540 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 010231 RRA SVRSDF INC077-KYC223-010300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1032 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 LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH INDIANA ...JEFFERSON COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...TRIMBLE COUNTY AT 1025 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 25 MILES NORTH OF LOUISVILLE FROM NEAR BLOCHER TO NEAR NEW WASHINGTON. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 TO 50 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL REACH MADISON...BELLEVIEW...MILTON...AND BEDFORD BY 1045 PM EDT. DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...FIND SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. TWF
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 57 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, 27 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, 26 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
DOWNLocal storm report, Apr 30, 10:32 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1032 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
DOWN
0910 PM JASPER IN WIND DAMAGE
04/30/97 DUBOIS TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
0925 PM PAOLI IN WIND DAMAGE
04/30/97 ORANGE TREES DOWN
0925 PM FRENCH LICK IN WIND DAMAGE
04/30/97 ORANGE TREES DOWN
0930 PM 3 W HORSE BRANCH KY WIND DAMAGE
04/30/97 OHIO WINDOWS BROKEN IN A
HOME...TREES DAMAGEDThe 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, 10:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 32 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 |
| Apr 30, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 9:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Orange | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 35 min |
| Apr 30, 9:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 21 min |
| Apr 30, 9:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Washington | 33 min |
| Apr 30, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 43 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Indiana, 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.