Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 141, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 4:54 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 51 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
- Aug 17, 1997, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, WV
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lawrence County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 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.
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 17, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 172054 RRA SVRCRW KYC127-172145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 454 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...LAWRENCE COUNTY RADAR INDICATES THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN LAWRENCE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. << CALL TO ACTION >> SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...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.
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
Local storm report, Aug 17, 4:36 PM EDT, 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
438 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM POMEROY OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 MEIGS NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED FROM
CHESTER...TO POMEROY AND
RUTLAND. TREES DOWNED ON
RTE 7 EAST IN MEIGS
GOUNTY.
0310 PM PROCTORVILLE OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 LAWRENCE MANY DOWNED TREES...NUMBER
DOWNED REPORTED IN THE
HUNDREDS BY HAM RADIO
SPOTTER...ALONG STATE
ROUTE 775 NORTH OF
PROCTORVILLE.
0330 PM GREEN BOTTOM WV WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 CABELL SEVERAL TREES AND BRANCHES
DOWNED
0400 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 BOYD SEVERAL TREES DOWNED 12
MILES EAST OF
GRAYSON...JUST OVER THE
BOYD COUNTY LINELocal storm report, Aug 17, 4:38 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA
438 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0115 PM POMEROY OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 MEIGS NUMEROUS TREES DOWNED FROM
CHESTER...TO POMEROY AND
RUTLAND. TREES DOWNED ON
RTE 7 EAST IN MEIGS
GOUNTY.
0310 PM PROCTORVILLE OH WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 LAWRENCE MANY DOWNED TREES...NUMBER
DOWNED REPORTED IN THE
HUNDREDS BY HAM RADIO
SPOTTER...ALONG STATE
ROUTE 775 NORTH OF
PROCTORVILLE.
0330 PM GREEN BOTTOM WV WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 CABELL SEVERAL TREES AND BRANCHES
DOWNED
0400 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
08/17/97 BOYD SEVERAL TREES DOWNED 12
MILES EAST OF
GRAYSON...JUST OVER THE
BOYD COUNTY LINEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 46 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.