Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, August 1997
56 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 1997. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 56
- Busiest day
- August 17, 199723 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 4, 10:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 33 min |
| Aug 4, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Elliott, Lawrence | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 29 min |
| Aug 4, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 61 min |
| Aug 4, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 26 min |
| Aug 4, 5:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 59 min |
| Aug 4, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 62 min |
| Aug 4, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee | 44 min |
| Aug 4, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 48 min |
| Aug 4, 9:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Perry | 62 min |
| Aug 17, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter, Greenup | 63 min |
| 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, 3:20 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, 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, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 43 min |
| Aug 17, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 51 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, 7:18 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 |
| Aug 19, 3:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 4:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 26 min |
| Aug 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 55 min |
| Aug 19, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 41 min |
| Aug 19, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 43 min |
| Aug 25, 7:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine, Mercer, Woodford | 32 min |
| Aug 25, 8:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 35 min |
| Aug 25, 9:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 31 min |
| Aug 25, 9:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle | 18 min |
| Aug 25, 9:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 27 min |
| Aug 25, 10:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 45 min |
| Aug 25, 10:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 11 min |
| Aug 25, 10:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson | 28 min |
| Aug 25, 11:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Hart | 33 min |
| Aug 25, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 27 min |
| Aug 25, 1:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 29 min |
| Aug 25, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 26 min |
| Aug 29, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle | 34 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carter County4
- Lawrence County4
- Grayson County3
- Hart County3
- Elliott County2
- Menifee County2
- Breathitt County2
- Greenup County2
- Fayette County2
- Fleming County2
- Bath County2
- Rowan County2
- Boyd County2
- Carlisle County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Lincoln County2
- Pike County1
- Letcher County1
- Wolfe County1
- Johnson County1
- Martin County1
- Leslie County1
- Lee County1
- Knott County1
- Perry County1
- Pendleton County1
- Bracken County1
- Mason County1
- Lewis County1
- Nicholas County1
- Montgomery County1
- Owen County1
- Clark County1
- Morgan County1
- Magoffin County1
- Todd County1
- Edmonson County1
- Ballard County1
- Graves County1
- Calloway 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.