Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 98, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 1997, 9:37 PM CDT for Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 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, 9:37 PM CDT (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 1997, 10:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan 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 CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 010236 RRA SVRSDF KYC141-010315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1037 PM EDT (937 PM CDT) WED APR 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT (1015 PM CDT) FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...LOGAN COUNTY AT 935 PM CDT/1035 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN NEAR THE TOWN OF WHIPPOORWILL. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH RUSSELLVILLE BY 950 PM CDT AND AUBURN BEFORE 1000 PM CDT. 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, 5:35 PM CDT, 4 hours 2 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, 9:05 PM CDT, 32 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, 9:06 PM CDT, 31 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, 9:32 PM CDT, 5 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, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 41 min |
| Apr 30, 9:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 9:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin | 32 min |
| Apr 30, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 28 min |
| Apr 30, 9:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 10:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Apr 30, 10:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Warren | 26 min |
| Apr 30, 10:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Washington | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 42 min |
| Apr 30, 11:07 PM CDT | 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.