Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 698
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 17, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT for 35 counties in Kentucky; 6 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1997, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1997, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Clark County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:15 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.
Warnings issued inside it
17 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Pendleton | 49 min |
| Aug 17, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 64 min |
| Aug 17, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Mason | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Adams | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Adams | 61 min |
| Aug 17, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 60 min |
| Aug 17, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 24 min |
| Aug 17, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 61 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, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 31 min |
| Aug 17, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Fayette | 35 min |
| Aug 17, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 50 min |
| Aug 17, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Rowan | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Clermont, Warren | 66 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 155 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, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Estill, Floyd and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 16, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Crawford and 29 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.