Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 2:27 PM EDT for Lee County, Kentucky. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 2:27 PM EDT (18:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lee 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 812 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.0
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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 2:10 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:10 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 210 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 DISC WILL BE SHORT WITH SVR ONGOING AND WATCH JUST ISSUED. VIL OF THE DAY APPEARS TO RANGE FROM 55-60. FFA FOR ENTIRE AREA THIS EVEING SOUNDS REASONABLE. NO TIME FOR TEMPS AND POPS...SEE EARLIER DISC. INGRAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 46 min |
| Jun 10, 3:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 3:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin, Pike | 44 min |
| Jun 10, 3:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 65 min |
| Jun 10, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 49 min |
| Jun 10, 3:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 64 min |
| Jun 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 5 hr |
| Jun 10, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.