Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 6
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jan 5, 1997, 12:45 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 5, 1997, 12:45 AM EST (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 5, 1997, 5:45 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 101 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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Warnings issued inside it
26 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Whitley | 40 min |
| Jan 5, 12:56 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 34 min |
| Jan 5, 1:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Anderson, Campbell | 68 min |
| Jan 5, 1:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Meigs, Rhea, Roane | 61 min |
| Jan 5, 1:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 1:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 1:32 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 28 min |
| Jan 5, 1:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Claiborne, Union | 57 min |
| Jan 5, 1:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 1:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 1:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Blount, Loudon, McMinn, Monroe | 57 min |
| Jan 5, 1:48 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Grainger, Knox | 57 min |
| Jan 5, 1:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Lee | 66 min |
| Jan 5, 1:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Letcher | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 1:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Magoffin | 46 min |
| Jan 5, 2:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hancock, Hawkins | 59 min |
| Jan 5, 2:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hamblen, Jefferson | 59 min |
| Jan 5, 2:21 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Sevier | 69 min |
| Jan 5, 2:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin, Pike | 37 min |
| Jan 5, 2:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Cocke, Greene | 55 min |
| Jan 5, 2:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Scott, Wise | 55 min |
| Jan 5, 2:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Logan, Mingo | 39 min |
| Jan 5, 3:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Hawkins, Sullivan, Washington | 67 min |
| Jan 5, 3:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Carter, Unicoi | 63 min |
| Jan 5, 3:42 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Washington | 63 min |
| Jan 5, 4:09 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MRX | Johnson | 36 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 273 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
- 153 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 789 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 479 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 12:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cherokee, Graham, Swain | 5 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Buncombe, Catawba, Cherokee, Clay, Cleveland, Graham and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 5, 6:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Scotland | 5 hr |
| Jan 4, 9:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bedford, Benton, Cannon, Cheatham, Chester, Coffee and 35 more | 6 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.