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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Jackson, KY

May 3, 1998Leslie County, Perry County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 3, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT for Leslie County, Perry County, Kentucky. It was in force for 65 min. 2 reports 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: May 3, 1998, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
Expired: May 3, 1998, 7:35 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Leslie County, KY, Perry County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 3, 6:35 PM EDT	Hail 1	Cutshin, KY
May 3, 6:40 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Dow, KY

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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 255 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 654 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 3, 2:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 3, 2:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 3, 5:37 PM EDT, 53 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
May 2, 8:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Leslie	75 min
May 2, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	60 min
May 2, 10:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Wolfe	82 min
May 3, 12:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	47 min
May 3, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knox, Laurel	48 min
May 3, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	44 min
May 3, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	47 min
May 3, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Leslie	47 min
May 3, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	48 min
May 3, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	33 min
May 3, 2:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	48 min
May 3, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	47 min
May 3, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	31 min
May 3, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	61 min
May 3, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott	61 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.