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Tornado Warning 13, NWS Louisville, KY

March 28, 1997Clark County, Scott County, Washington County, Indiana

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1997, 8:16 PM EST for Clark County, Scott County, Washington County, Indiana. It was in force for 44 min. 1 report 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, 8:16 PM EST (01:16 UTC)
Expired: Mar 28, 1997, 9:00 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Clark County, IN, Scott County, IN, Washington County, IN

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:19 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, 8:45 PM EST	Tornado F1	Blocher, IN

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, 6:00 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 275 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 282 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 290119 RRA
TORSDF
INC019-143-175-290200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
816 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EST
FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN SOUTH INDIANA
 
   ...NORTHERN CLARK COUNTY...SCOTT COUNTY
   ...EASTERN WASHINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 815 PM EST WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO WITHIN THE LINE 30 MILES NORTHWEST
OF LOUISVILLE NEAR SALEM.
 
THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AND POSSIBLE TORNADO WERE MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.  SOME CITIES IN THE PATH OF THIS LINE ARE HARRISTOWN BY 825
PM EST AND ROCK KNOB BY 830 PM EST AND HENRYVILLE ALSO BY 830 PM EST.
 
 
 
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.
 
 
RNK

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	Jefferson	43 min
Mar 28, 7:20 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Dubois, Orange	40 min
Mar 28, 7:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson	33 min
Mar 28, 7:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Crawford, Perry	35 min
Mar 28, 7:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Washington	35 min
Mar 28, 8:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Floyd, Harrison	45 min
Mar 28, 8:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Clark	40 min
Mar 28, 8:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Jefferson	31 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.