Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 4, 1997, 10:12 AM EDT for Carter County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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 4, 1997, 10:12 AM EDT (14:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 4, 1997, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carter County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:40 AM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Olive Hill, 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 1010 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 547 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 6.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 041414 RRA SVRCRW KYC043-041445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 1012 AM EDT MON AUG 4 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...CARTER COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NORTH OF INTERSTATE 64 MOVING TOWARD GRAYSON. THIS STORM WILL PASS NEAR GREGORYVILLE. << CALL TO ACTION >> WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
WVZ009>011-OHZ066-067-075-076-084-041030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 530 AM EDT MON AUG 4 1997 EARLY MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST OHIO. AT 5:30 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN WAS NEAR NEW LEXINGTON OF PERRY COUNTY AND LOGAN OF HOCKING COUNTY. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THE RAIN WILL REACH FOLKS NEAR MCCONNELSVILLE...ATHENS...AND MCARTHER BETWEEN 6 AND 6:30 AM...THEN INTO THE MARIETTA AND PARKERSBURG VICINITY BEFORE 7 AM. SOME SHOWERS COULD CONTAIN A DOWNPOUR. ALLOW SOME EXTRA TIME FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE. END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
Special weather statement, Aug 4, 5:33 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
WVZ009>011-OHZ066-067-075-076-084-041030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 530 AM EDT MON AUG 4 1997 EARLY MORNING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST OHIO. AT 5:30 AM...THE LEADING EDGE OF THE RAIN WAS NEAR NEW LEXINGTON OF PERRY COUNTY AND LOGAN OF HOCKING COUNTY. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MPH. THE RAIN WILL REACH FOLKS NEAR MCCONNELSVILLE...ATHENS...AND MCARTHER BETWEEN 6 AND 6:30 AM...THEN INTO THE MARIETTA AND PARKERSBURG VICINITY BEFORE 7 AM. SOME SHOWERS COULD CONTAIN A DOWNPOUR. ALLOW SOME EXTRA TIME FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE. END / KTB / NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Elliott, Lawrence | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 26 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.