Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 9:59 PM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 9:59 PM CDT (02:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 10:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Breckinridge County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 10:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Ammons, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 1825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-089>100-INZ076>079-084-090>092- 130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1007 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EAST KENTUCKY THROUGH 4 AM EDT. THE WATCH IS EAST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF COVINGTON THROUGH FRANKFORT TO STANFORDAND THEN EAST TO PIKEVILLE. A COLD FRONT FROM CHICAGO TO ST LOUIS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN THE WATCH AREA...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST KENTUCKY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REITMEYER
Special weather statement, Jun 12, 9:07 PM CDT, 52 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-089>100-INZ076>079-084-090>092- 130600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1007 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF EAST KENTUCKY THROUGH 4 AM EDT. THE WATCH IS EAST AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF COVINGTON THROUGH FRANKFORT TO STANFORDAND THEN EAST TO PIKEVILLE. A COLD FRONT FROM CHICAGO TO ST LOUIS WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS KENTUCKY TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR IN THE WATCH AREA...WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE MAIN THREATS. A TORNADO WATCH ACROSS PARTS OF NORTH AND WEST KENTUCKY WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR COMMERCIAL MEDIA FOR LATER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. REITMEYER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 9:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 19 min |
| Jun 12, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Shelby, Spencer | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 10:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 10:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 10:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette | 34 min |
| Jun 12, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 11:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 12:34 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 8:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Perry | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 9:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Orange | 19 min |
| Jun 12, 9:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 19 min |
| Jun 12, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.