Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 4:53 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky; Perry County, Indiana. It was in force for 37 min. 1 report 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, 4:53 PM CDT (21:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Perry County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 5:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Hardinsburg, 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, 3:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 31, 3:23 PM CDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
423 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0420 PM LITTLE YORK IN 1 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 WASHINGTON REPORT FROM DESLocal storm report, May 31, 3:31 PM CDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
431 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM AUSTIN IN 1.75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 SCOTT REPORT FROM NWS SPOTTERLocal storm report, May 31, 4:13 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
513 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM SCOTTSBURG IN WIND DAMAGE
05/31/98 SCOTT TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
ACROSS THE COUNTY. REPORT
FROM LOCAL SHERIFF.
0455 PM MILTON KY 60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/31/98 TRIMBLE REPORT FROM NWS SPOTTER
0457 PM VIENNA IN TORNADO
05/31/98 SCOTT TORNADO REPORTED EAST OF
VIENNA ON HIGHWAY 256.
REPORTED BY POLICE AND
FIRE DEPARTMENTS. RELAYED
THROUGH DES.
0500 PM MILTON KY .75 INCH HAIL
05/31/98 TRIMBLE REPORT FROM LAGRANGE STATE
POLICE.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 45 min |
| May 31, 4:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Trimble | 26 min |
| May 31, 4:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry | 31 min |
| May 31, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 34 min |
| May 31, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 43 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin | 39 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 39 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 35 min |
| May 31, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 42 min |
| May 31, 6:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 41 min |
| May 31, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 35 min |
| May 31, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 36 min |
| May 31, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 31 min |
| May 31, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 28 min |
| May 31, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 29 min |
| May 31, 6:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Taylor | 43 min |
| May 31, 3:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Washington | 33 min |
| May 31, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 27 min |
| May 31, 3:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 28 min |
| May 31, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 44 min |
| May 31, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 43 min |
| May 31, 5:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Harrison | 49 min |
| May 31, 5:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 47 min |
| May 31, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 35 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.