Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, WV
NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 1, 1997, 4:04 PM EST for Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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
- Mar 1, 1997, 4:04 PM EST (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 1997, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 26 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 21:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 4:25 PM EST | Thunderstorm Wind | Blaine, 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, 9.1 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 514 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 411 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCRW 012104 RRA SVRCRW KYC127-012130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 404 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN EAST KENTUCKY ...SOUTHERN LAWRENCE COUNTY STORNG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF LAWRENCE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HALF HOUR. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. 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. ZINN
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, Mar 1, 3:42 PM EST, 22 minutes before
KYZ105-012130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 342 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY BETWEEN 400 AND 430 PM... A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH IS INDICATED BY RADAR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY BETWEEN 4 AND 430 PM. IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG WINDS SOME SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. END
Special weather statement, Mar 1, 3:47 PM EST, 17 minutes before
KYZ105-012130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV 342 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY BETWEEN 400 AND 430 PM..8. A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH IS INDICATED BY RADAR AND WILL MOVE THROUGH LAWRENCE COUNTY KENTUCKY BETWEEN 4 AND 430 PM. IN ADDITION TO THE STRONG WINDS SOME SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. END
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 6:27 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:37 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 1:50 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Carter | 4 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.