Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT for Carroll County, Kentucky. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1998, 5:10 PM EDT (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Carroll County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
344
WFUS01 KILN 312111 RRA
TORILN
KYC041-312215-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
510 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
CARROLL COUNTY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY.
* EFFECTIVE UNTIL 615 PM EDT.
* AT 509 PM EDT... DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO IN THE
VICINITY OF CARROLLTON MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED...
ENGLISH BY 512 PM EDT..
I-71 AT MILE MARKER 45 BY 513 PM EDT..
WORTHVILLE BY 516 PM EDT..
I-71 AT MILE MARKER 50 BY 520 PM EDT..
SANDERS BY 526 PM EDT..
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION. ACT QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE IN
THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND OR TO A
SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado 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 tornado warning went out at May 31, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 2:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
FORECAST COORDINATION MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 240 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 18Z KILN RAOB AVAILABLE ON AFOS...CAPE >4000 AND WK H8 CAP WL BE OVERCOME SHORTLY BY SFC HEATING...SO CONDITIONS IN PLACE FOR SVR WX OUTBREAK ACRS CWA THIS AFTN/EVE. SVR TSTMS NOW FIRING ALONG PRE-FRONTAL TROF JUST AHEAD OF COLD FRNT... AND TSTMS INTENSIFYING ACRS CNTL IN WITHIN EXTREMELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. COLD FRNT WL STILL BE N OF OH RVR BY 0Z AND WL LIKELY NOT CLR S/E CWA COUNTIES BEFORE MIDNITE. TSTMS WL END ACRS NW COUNTIES BY LATE AFTN BUT WL CONT ACRS CNTL S SECTIONS INTO THIS EVE...SO CATEGORICAL POPS IN ORDER CNTL EARLY EVE AND S TIL 4Z-6Z. COOLER...DRIER AIRMASS WILL THEN PUSH INTO REGION OVERNITE AND WL REMAIN IN PLACE THRU MON. HI TMPS MON WL ACTUALLY BE BLO NORMAL FOR JUN 1. NEXT SYSTEM WL APPROACH QUICKLY IN FAST FLW REGIME LATER MON NITE. SW FLW/WAA WL INTENSIFY...AND CONDITIONS APPR FAVORABLE FOR ANOTHER MCS TO DEVELOP ACRS GREAT LAKES AND PUSH THROUGH OR JUST N OF XTRM N CWA COUNTIES EARLY TUE AM...SO CHC POPS IN ORDER ACRS FAR N LATE MON NITE. FARTHER S...MSTR CONVERGC IMPRESSIVE AND INSTABILITY INCR WITHIN N/S BAND...INTO W CWA COUNTIES BY 12Z TUE...SHRA/TSRA CUD DEVELOP WITHIN THIS WAA BAND. HOWEVER...DEEPEST MSTR FOCUSED AT MID LVLS...AND MAY ONLY PRODUCE SPRINKLES/FEW -SHRA WITH RELATIVELY DRY AIR AT SFC. TUE...MANY SIMILARITIES TO TDAS SCENARIO...EXCEPT SFC DWPTS SHUD BE SOMEWHAT LOWER. WARM SECTOR WL SPREAD INTO CWA ON STRONG SW BREEZE... AND COLD FRNT WL THEN PUSH INTO REGION DURG AFTN/EVE AND WL LIKELY PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG/SVR TSTMS. CVG 57/73/59/85 8026 DAY 52/71/56/81 7026 CMH 53/72/54/82 7016 PRT 60/75/54/86 8015 ROWLEY
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 1:12 PM EDT, 3 hours 58 minutes before
OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>055-INZ050-312300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 110 PM EDT (1210 PM EST) SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT (6 PM EST)... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 7 PM EDT (6 PM EST)...FOR WAYNE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...THE MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO NORTH OF DAYTON AND NORTHERN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL OHIO. CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE RICHMOND...TROY...SPRINGFIELD... COLUMBUS AND DELAWARE. FOR THE OHIO COUNTIES OF HARDIN...LOGAN...CHAMPAIGN...CLARK... MADISON...UNION...DELAWARE AND FRANKLIN...THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REPLACES THE WATCH THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 3 PM EDT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON. AT 105 PM EDT...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING RAPIDLY AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN INDIANA AND NORTHWEST OHIO...AND THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP TOWARD THE SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY THIS AFTERNOON...SO WHEN THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY. IF YOU ARE LOCATED WITHIN OR CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA...YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
OHZ063>065-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 311 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL OHIO COUNTIES OF FAYETTE...PICKAWAY AND FAIRFIELD EXPIRED AT 3 PM EDT. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL INTO THIS EVENING...SO YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
OHZ063>065-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 311 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL OHIO COUNTIES OF FAYETTE...PICKAWAY AND FAIRFIELD EXPIRED AT 3 PM EDT. CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL INTO THIS EVENING...SO YOU ARE STRONGLY URGED TO STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES...INCLUDING POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
OHZ056-312000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 315 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR LICKING COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM EDT... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM EDT...FOR LICKING COUNTY IN CENTRAL OHIO. A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS PRODUCING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH AND WEST OF LICKING COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PUSH INTO THE COUNTY BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON...AND CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE TORNADOES...DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING RAPIDLY...SO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. PLEASE STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ROWLEY
Special weather statement, May 31, 4:14 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
OHZ045-046-051>055-060>064-070>073-077>082-088-INZ058-059-066- 073>075-080-KYZ089>100-010200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 415 PM EDT (315 PM EST) SUN MAY 31 1998 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT (9 PM EST)... THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER IN NORMAN OKLAHOMA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH...EFFECTIVE UNTIL 10 PM EDT (9 PM EST)...FOR MOST OF CENTRAL OHIO...MUCH OF THE MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...PARTS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...ALL OF SOUTHEAST INDIANA...ALL OF SOUTHERN OHIO AND ALL OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY. CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE CINCINNATI...BROOKVILLE...DAYTON... COLUMBUS AND MAYSVILLE. FOR THE OHIO COUNTIES OF MIAMI...CHAMPAIGN...CLARK...UNION... MADISON...DELAWARE AND FRANKLIN...THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REPLACES THE WATCH THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EDT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WAS APPROACHING THE REGION FROM THE NORTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON...AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS AND WERE INTENSIFYING ACROSS PARTS OF OHIO AND INDIANA. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP FARTHER SOUTH AND EAST INTO THE WATCH AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. CONDITIONS WILL BE FAVORABLE FOR ANY THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE RAPIDLY...SO SEEK SHELTER QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS FOR UPDATES AND POSSBLE WARNINGS. ROWLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Carroll | 64 min |
| May 31, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 63 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every tornado warning in 1998Tornadoes 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.