Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 9, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 16, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT for Wayne County, Kentucky. It was in force for 68 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
- Apr 16, 1998, 5:37 PM CDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 6:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 5:55 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Windy, KY | |
| Apr 16, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado F2 | Mt Pisgah, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 15, 7:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Lee, Owsley | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 5:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 1:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Whitley | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 6:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Whitley | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 6:58 PM CDT | 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.