Alert archive / West Virginia / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 697
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 17, 1997, 1:15 PM EDT for 18 counties in Kentucky; 12 counties in Ohio; 35 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1997, 1:15 PM EDT (17:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties
Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Perry County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
36 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 15 min |
| Aug 17, 1:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens, Washington | 57 min |
| Aug 17, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Mason, Putnam | 66 min |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pike, Scioto | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 48 min |
| Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Gallia, Jackson, Meigs, Vinton | 54 min |
| Aug 17, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Roane | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Cabell, Mason | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Braxton | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Athens | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Jackson, Lincoln, Putnam | 55 min |
| Aug 17, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Webster | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Kanawha | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Randolph, Upshur | 58 min |
| Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Clay, Nicholas | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Raleigh | 51 min |
| Aug 17, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boone | 52 min |
| Aug 17, 6:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Wyoming | 42 min |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Rowan | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 44 min |
| Aug 17, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 7:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 46 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Campbell and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Crawford and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 8 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 1997Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.