Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 19, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Mar 28, 1997, 10:07 PM EST for Lincoln 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
- Mar 28, 1997, 10:07 PM EST (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 1997, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lincoln 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 227 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.
564 WFUS1 KSDF 290313 TORSDF KYC079-151-137-290345- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED ...CORRECTION TO CITY AFFECTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1007 PM EST FRI MAR 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EST FOR PERSONS IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...SOUTHERN GARRARD COUNTY...SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY AT 1006 PM EST...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 30 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET...NEAR CRAB ORCHARD. THIS STORM IS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND SHOULD REACH BEREA BEFORE 1020 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. TF/RC/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, 7:36 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Marion | 39 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, 10:10 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.