Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 11:03 PM EDT for Bullitt County, Shelby County, Spencer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 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
- Jun 12, 1998, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 12, 1998, 11:35 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullitt County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer 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, 11:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Toddspoint, KY | |
| Jun 12, 11:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Elk Creek, 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, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 2064 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1235 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 211 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.2
- Supercell composite
- 17.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
936 WUUS1 KSDF 130304 RRA SVRSDF KYC029-211-215-130335- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1103 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BULLITT COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SHELBY COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SPENCER COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1135 PM EDT * AT 1050 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM VALLEY STATION TO LAGRANGE...15 MILES EAST OF LOUISVILLE. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SHELBYVILLE BY 1115 PM TAYLORSVILLE BY 1115 PM SHEPHERDSVILLE BY 1110 PM GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REC/VLD
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, 10:07 PM EDT, 56 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, 10:07 PM EDT, 56 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, 10:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Oldham | 19 min |
| Jun 12, 10:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 35 min |
| Jun 12, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 12, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott, Woodford | 30 min |
| Jun 12, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette | 34 min |
| Jun 13, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 33 min |
| Jun 13, 12:45 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hardin | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 1:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue | 35 min |
| Jun 13, 1:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.