Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 122, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 1998, 7:43 PM CDT for Russell County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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, 7:43 PM CDT (00:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 8:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Russell County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:48 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Jamestown, 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, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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 KSDF 010044 SVRSDF KYC207-010115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 843 PM EDT (743 PM CDT) SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... RUSSELL COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 815 PM CDT (915 PM EDT) * AT 740 PM CDT (840 PM EDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF WEBBS CROSS ROADS... 20 MILES WEST OF SOMERSET... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WEBBS CROSS ROADS IMMEDIATELY SALEM BY 750 PM CDT ELI BY 800 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! FUNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 41 min |
| May 31, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 28 min |
| May 31, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 31, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 18 min |
| May 31, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 33 min |
| May 31, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 38 min |
| May 31, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 36 min |
| May 31, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Marion | 3 hr |
| May 31, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 90 min |
| May 31, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 48 min |
| May 31, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green | 47 min |
| May 31, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 36 min |
| May 31, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair | 2 hr |
| May 31, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 33 min |
| May 31, 10:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Russell | 119 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.