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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 131, NWS Wilmington, OH

June 10, 1998Bracken County, Kentucky

NWS Wilmington, OH issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 8:06 PM EDT for Bracken County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1998, 8:06 PM EDT (00:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1998, 8:35 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Wilmington, OH
Area
Whole counties

County Bracken County, KY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 10, 8:19 PM EDTHail 1.75Augusta, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 86 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1998-06-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 61 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1998-06-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 15 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
61 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:40 PM EDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
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In the hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBrown16 min
Jun 11, 9:47 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNShelby3 hr
Jun 11, 10:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNButler, Hamilton2 hr
Jun 11, 10:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClermont2 hr
Jun 11, 11:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNDarke3 hr
Jun 11, 11:13 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNMiami3 hr
Jun 11, 11:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNHamilton3 hr
Jun 11, 11:33 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNClermont3 hr
Jun 11, 12:44 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNShelby3 hr
Jun 11, 2:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNAdams, Brown102 min
Jun 11, 7:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNGrant50 min
Jun 11, 10:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILNBoone49 min
Jun 11, 10:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNBoone2 hr
Jun 11, 11:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNKenton116 min
Jun 11, 11:54 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNPendleton3 hr
Jun 11, 1:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNGrant, Pendleton3 hr
Jun 11, 1:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNBracken, Mason, Robertson3 hr
Jun 11, 1:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNLewis3 hr
Jun 11, 2:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNKenton3 hr
Jun 11, 10:11 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin3 hr
Jun 11, 11:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFayette, Union2 hr
Jun 11, 1:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFayette, Union3 hr
Jun 11, 1:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFranklin3 hr
Jun 11, 2:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNWayne2 hr
Jun 11, 4:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningILNFayette, Franklin, Union, Wayne87 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.