Alert archive / Kentucky / 1997
Weather alerts in Kentucky, January 1997
35 weather alerts in January 1997, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in January 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 35
- Warnings
- 33
- Watches
- 2
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- January 5, 199716 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 21 min |
| Jan 5, 12:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Kenton | 44 min |
| Jan 5, 12:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 42 min |
| Jan 5, 12:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 35 min |
| Jan 5, 12:33 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken | 42 min |
| Jan 5, 12:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter and 42 more | 5 hr |
| 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, 1:25 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, 1:40 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, 1:59 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, 2:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin, Pike | 37 min |
| Jan 22, 6:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 27 min |
| Jan 22, 6:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard | 38 min |
| Jan 22, 7:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 33 min |
| Jan 22, 7:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 32 min |
| Jan 22, 7:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland | 31 min |
| Jan 22, 7:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 42 min |
| Jan 24, 5:04 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 26 min |
| Jan 24, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 28 min |
| Jan 24, 5:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 25 min |
| Jan 24, 6:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 37 min |
| Jan 24, 6:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Taylor | 30 min |
| Jan 24, 6:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Metcalfe | 47 min |
| Jan 24, 6:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 33 min |
| Jan 24, 7:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Taylor | 34 min |
| Jan 24, 9:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 31 min |
| Jan 24, 9:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 32 min |
| Jan 24, 10:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan, Perry | 30 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 33 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Graves County3
- Clay County3
- Knox County3
- Leslie County3
- Perry County3
- Barren County3
- Ballard County2
- Carlisle County2
- Wayne County2
- McCreary County2
- Breathitt County2
- Estill County2
- Fayette County2
- Floyd County2
- Harlan County2
- Knott County2
- Laurel County2
- Lee County2
- Letcher County2
- Magoffin County2
- Martin County2
- Pike County2
- Rowan County2
- Whitley County2
- Wolfe County2
- Green County2
- Taylor County2
- Fulton County1
- Hickman County1
- Livingston County1
- McCracken County1
- Marion County1
- Campbell County1
- Kenton County1
- Bracken County1
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyd County1
- Carter County1
29 more counties
- Clark County1
- Elliott County1
- Fleming County1
- Garrard County1
- Greenup County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owsley County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
- Robertson County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Hardin County1
- Meade County1
- Cumberland County1
- Todd County1
- Warren County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Adair County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.