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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Charleston, WV

May 14, 1997Boyd County, Lawrence County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1997, 6:56 PM EDT for Boyd County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min. 2 reports 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: May 14, 1997, 6:56 PM EDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 1997, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, WV
Area: Whole counties

Counties Boyd County, KY, Lawrence County, KY

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 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
May 14, 7:00 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Burnaugh, KY
May 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Fallsburg, 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCRW 142257 RRA
SVRCRW
KYC019-127-142330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
656 PM EDT WED MAY 14 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN EAST KENTUCKY
 
   ...BOYD COUNTY...LAWRENCE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN
BOYD AND WESTERN LAWERENCE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE
EAST AT AROUND 40 MPH. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL BE LARGE
HAIL.
 
 
<< CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND
IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HA^IL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND
VERY HEAVY RAIN.FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON
THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS
QUICKLY SO DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RLX	Lawrence	24 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997 Every 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.