Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 16, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1997, 7:49 PM CST for Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 41 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, 7:49 PM CST (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 8:30 PM CST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:49 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, 7:50 PM CST | Tornado F0 | Jamestown, 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, 6:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 290150 RRA TORSDF KYC207-290230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 849 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...RUSSELL COUNTY AT 747 PM CST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDESTORM WITH DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR CROCUS IN ADAIR COUNTY...WHICH IS 20 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD REACH OLGA BY 900 PM EST...AND JAMESTOWN BY 905 PM EST. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. TAKE COVER NOW. 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. TFV/VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 6:02 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 6:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 55 min |
| Mar 28, 6:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 6:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 6:17 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Larue | 43 min |
| Mar 28, 6:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 6:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 6:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Marion | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 6:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 7:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Mercer, Woodford | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 49 min |
| Mar 28, 7:23 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 7:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 67 min |
| Mar 28, 7:28 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 47 min |
| Mar 28, 7:35 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 40 min |
| Mar 28, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Spencer | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry, Shelby | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 7:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 52 min |
| Mar 28, 7:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 32 min |
| Mar 28, 8:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock, Ohio | 45 min |
| Mar 28, 8:06 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 8:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 33 min |
| Mar 28, 8:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 8:38 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan, Simpson, Warren | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 8:40 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 44 min |
| Mar 28, 8:52 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Larue, Taylor | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 8:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 9:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 39 min |
| Mar 28, 9:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 9:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 38 min |
| Mar 28, 9:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 9:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 9:17 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 28 min |
| Mar 28, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette, Jessamine | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison, Nicholas | 54 min |
| Mar 28, 9:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Warren | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 9:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue, Nelson | 30 min |
| Mar 28, 9:39 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Mercer | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 9:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 36 min |
| Mar 28, 9:41 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 34 min |
| Mar 28, 9:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 37 min |
| Mar 28, 9:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 35 min |
| Mar 28, 10:14 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Hart | 31 min |
| Mar 28, 10:28 PM CST | 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.