Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 84
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Mar 2, 1997, 1:30 AM EST for 19 counties in Kentucky; 10 counties in Virginia; 18 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 1997, 1:30 AM EST (06:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 1997, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Highland 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, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:33 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
14 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 1:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley | 47 min |
| Mar 2, 1:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 1:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Magoffin | 46 min |
| Mar 2, 2:08 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:11 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin | 34 min |
| Mar 2, 2:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:14 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Putnam | 6 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 36 min |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Kanawha, Roane | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 3:06 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lincoln, Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Wayne | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Putnam | 5 hr |
| Mar 2, 7:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Clay | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 247 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
- 607 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 268 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 67 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in West Virginia, 1997Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 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.