Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1998, 11:30 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Rockcastle County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 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 14, 1998, 11:30 PM EDT (03:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1998, 12:20 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 14, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 3344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 936 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 509 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 11.0
- Supercell composite
- 67.6
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 10:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 31 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.