Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 151, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1998, 11:27 PM EDT for Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 1998, 11:27 PM EDT (03:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 13, 1998, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, KY, Meade County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:28 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.
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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
076 WUUS1 KSDF 130328 RRA SVRSDF KYC093-163-130400- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1127 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SOUTHERN MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1200 AM EDT * AT 1125 EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES SOUTH OF BRANDENBURG OR 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FLAHERTY IMMEDIATELY VINE GROVE BY 1140 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. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. 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, 1 hour 20 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, 1 hour 20 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
Local storm report, Jun 12, 11:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1124 PM EDT FRI JUN 12 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 FLOYD NUMEROUS TREES DOWN ACROSS
THE COUNTY.
1050 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 MEADE TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE
1100 PM KY WIND DAMAGE
06/12/98 OLDHAM SEVERAL TREES DOWN
COUNTYWIDE. REPORT FROM
STATE POLICE.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, 11:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Shelby, Spencer | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 35 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.