Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 229, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1997, 4:47 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 19, 1997, 4:47 PM CDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1997, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calloway County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 5:10 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | New Concord, KY | Three to four trees were down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 4:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Stoddard, Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 2:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Scott | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 2:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Mississippi, Scott | 52 min |
Nearby
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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.