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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Jackson, KY

April 16, 1998Bath County, Fleming County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1998, 6:30 AM EDT for Bath County, Fleming County, Kentucky. It was in force for 60 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: Apr 16, 1998, 6:30 AM EDT (10:30 UTC)
Expired: Apr 16, 1998, 7:30 AM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bath County, KY, Fleming 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
Apr 16, 2:45 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 131 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 835 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 283 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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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 Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 16, 3:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 16, 3:45 AM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 16, 3:11 AM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 15, 8:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Lee, Owsley	5 hr
Apr 15, 9:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel, McCreary, Whitley	3 hr
Apr 15, 9:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 15, 9:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	3 hr
Apr 16, 6:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	65 min
Apr 16, 2:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pulaski	3 hr
Apr 16, 6:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	3 hr
Apr 16, 6:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Laurel, Rockcastle	3 hr
Apr 16, 6:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Whitley	3 hr
Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Wayne	43 min
Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Wayne	68 min
Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski	60 min
Apr 16, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	49 min
Apr 16, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	61 min
Apr 16, 7:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Harlan	60 min
Apr 16, 7:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Jackson	3 hr
Apr 16, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	61 min
Apr 16, 7:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Fleming	3 hr
Apr 16, 7:36 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	49 min
Apr 16, 7:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary	37 min
Apr 16, 7:41 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	64 min
Apr 16, 7:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	64 min
Apr 16, 7:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Whitley	47 min
Apr 16, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	62 min

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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.