Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 10, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1997, 7:36 PM EST for Marion County, Kentucky. It was in force for 39 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
- Mar 28, 1997, 7:36 PM EST (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 8:15 PM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Marion County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:41 PM EST | Tornado F2 | Attilla, KY | |
| Mar 28, 7:45 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | New Market, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 1331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1544 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 11.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 290037 RRA TORSDF KYC155-290115- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 736 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...MARION COUNTY AT 735 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 40 MILES SOUTH OF LOUISVILLE NEAR THE TOWN OF ATTILLA. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL AFFECT JESSIETOWN AND NEW MARKET BEFORE 755 PM EST. LARGE HAIL IS ALSO LIKELY IN LEBANON BETWEEN 745 AND 800 PM EST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS... OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY. AVOID WINDOWS. TF/VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 7:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 7:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 7:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 7:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Larue | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 7:31 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 7:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 8:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Woodford | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:11 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 8:23 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 8:23 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 8:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 8:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Russell | 41 min |
| Mar 28, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Spencer | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 8:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 8:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 9:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 9:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 9:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 9:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 9:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 9:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 9:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 9:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Larue, Taylor | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 9:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:06 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 10:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 10:07 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 10:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 10:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 10:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 10:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 10:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Warren | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 10:39 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Mercer | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 10:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 10:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 10:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 10:55 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 11:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 11:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Taylor | 47 min |
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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.