Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 192, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1998, 3:58 PM EDT for Floyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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 24, 1998, 3:58 PM EDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1998, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Floyd County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Hi Hat, KY | Trees downed across HWY 1428. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 24, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 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
- 1211 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 24, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Knott | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 63 min |
| Jun 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 50 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.