Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 1998, 6:03 PM CST for Allen 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
- Mar 8, 1998, 6:03 PM CST (00:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 8, 1998, 6:35 PM CST
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allen County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 6:25 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Settle, KY | Nickel size hail reported by a spotter. |
| Mar 8, 6:25 PM CST | Hail 0.88 | Scottsville, KY | Dispatch reported nickel size hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 8, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 78 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 771 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 090003 RRA SVRSDF KYC003-090035- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 703 PM EST (603 PM CST) SUN MAR 8 1998 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ALLEN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 635 PM CST (735 PM EST) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED SCOTTSVILLE BY 615 PM CST * AT 600 PM CST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 25 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN...JUST SOUTH OF THE KENTUCKY/TENNESSE BORDER. THE STORM IS MOVING NORTH AT 40 MPH. LARGE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS AND STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. DEWALD
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.