Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1998, 4:24 AM CDT for Breckinridge County, Kentucky. It was in force for 36 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 21, 1998, 4:24 AM CDT (09:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1998, 5:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Breckinridge County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 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
- 1573 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1215 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
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, Jun 21, 12:52 AM CDT, 3 hours 32 minutes before
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</html>Local storm report, Jun 21, 12:58 AM CDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
158 AM EDT SUN JUN 21 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 AM 1 SW ABBOTT KY FLOOD
06/21/98 TRIMBLE PATTONS AND ORGAN
CREEKS OUT OF THEIR
BANKS. REPORT FROM
STATE POLICE.Local storm report, Jun 21, 1:30 AM CDT, 2 hours 54 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
230 AM EDT SUN JUN 21 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0215 AM WESTPORT KY FLOOD
06/21/98 OLDHAM ROCK SLIDE OCCURRED ON
HIGHWAY 524 WHICH IS
PARTIALLY BLOCKED. 10
HOMES EVACUATED JUST
EAST OF WESTPORT.
REPORT FROM STATE POLICE.Local storm report, Jun 21, 2:29 AM CDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
329 AM EDT SUN JUN 21 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0320 AM SCOTTSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/21/98 ALLEN TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN. REPORT FROM
DISPATCH.
0325 AM SCOTTSVILLE KY FLOOD
06/21/98 ALLEN WATER REPORTED OVER
GALLATIN ROAD. SEVERAL
SMALL CREEKS AT
BANKFUL. REPORT FROM
DISPATCH.Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:45 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076-079-083- 084-089>092-220400- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 445 AM EDT SUN JUN 21 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE OHIO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MEANWHILE...AT THE SAME TIME...AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. THESE TWO FACTORS COMBINED WITH AN ALREADY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE O6R THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY. COX
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:45 AM CDT, 39 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076-079-083- 084-089>092-220400- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 445 AM EDT SUN JUN 21 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS WILL SLOWLY MOVE SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE OHIO VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MEANWHILE...AT THE SAME TIME...AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. THESE TWO FACTORS COMBINED WITH AN ALREADY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WILL RESULT IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE O6R THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY. COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 21, 2:58 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 32 min |
| Jun 21, 5:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 34 min |
| Jun 21, 6:02 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair, Taylor | 118 min |
| Jun 21, 6:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Monroe | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 6:15 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 30 min |
| Jun 21, 6:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 40 min |
| Jun 21, 7:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair, Barren, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Monroe | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson, Warren | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:32 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 2 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:36 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 114 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.