Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 7:38 PM EDT for McCreary County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County McCreary County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 585 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
275 WFUS1 KJKL 162339 RRA TORJKL KYC147-170015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 738 PM EDT THU APR 16 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... MCCREARY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 815 PM EDT * AT 740 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR WHITLEY CITY... MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HOLLY HILL AT 755 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR WHP/CEG
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 | 60 min |
| 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, 7:41 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 |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.