Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 23, 1998, 5:07 PM CDT for Hancock County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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 23, 1998, 5:07 PM CDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 23, 1998, 5:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hancock County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Hail 0.75 | Lewisport, KY | Co-op observer reported dime 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 2558 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 232207 RRA SVRSDF KYC091-232230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 607 PM EDT (507 PM CDT) TUE JUN 23 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... HANCOCK COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 530 PM CDT (630 PM EDT) * AT 600 PM EDT (500 PM CDT)...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 55 MILES WEST OF LOUISVILLE...NEAR LEWISPORT... MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HAWESVILLE AT 515 PM CDT SKILLMAN AT 520 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO EXPECTED WITH |THIS STORM. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! RNK
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 23, 3:00 PM CDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
944 PM EDT TUE JUN 23 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0615 PM LEWISPORT KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/23/98 HANCOCK PEA TO DIME SIZE HAIL
REPORTED BY CO-OP
OBSERVER NEAR LEWISPORTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 12:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 12:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 35 min |
| Jun 23, 1:51 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Hancock | 2 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 28 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.