Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 9:11 PM EDT for Pulaski County, Kentucky. It was in force for 49 min. 3 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 31, 1998, 9:11 PM EDT (01:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pulaski County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 9:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Somerset, KY | A trailer was overturned. |
| May 31, 9:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Burnside, KY | Trees and power lines were downed. |
| May 31, 10:10 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Faubush, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 3629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 21.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 010111 RRA TORJKL KYC199-010200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 911 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... PULASKI COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. * UNTIL 1000 PM EDT. * AT AT 910 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR FAUBUSH... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... BURNSIDE AT 925 PM EDT. BRONSTON AT 925 PM EDT. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! RAB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 47 min |
| May 31, 8:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 62 min |
| May 31, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 56 min |
| May 31, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Lee, Wolfe | 51 min |
| May 31, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 48 min |
| May 31, 9:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 47 min |
| May 31, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Whitley | 46 min |
| May 31, 9:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Whitley | 45 min |
| May 31, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 45 min |
| May 31, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 30 min |
| May 31, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 45 min |
| May 31, 11:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 3 hr |
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.