Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 2:33 PM EDT for Fayette County, Kentucky. It was in force for 27 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 29, 1998, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fayette County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:48 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Lexington, 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 nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 165 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
- 749 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -115 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 961 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.5
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 29, 9:13 AM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
252 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0248 PM (LEX)BLU GRS FLD LEXINGTONKY 55 MPH TSTM GUST
06/29/98 FAYETTE FAYETTE COUNTY DISPATCH
REPORTS NUMEROUS TREES
DOWN COUNTY WIDE.
FLASH FLOODING WAS ALSO
REPORTED WITHIN THE
CITY OF LEXINGTON.Local storm report, Jun 29, 9:44 AM EDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
324 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0321 PM LEXINGTON KY FLOOD
06/29/98 FAYETTE 17 TO 18 INCHES OF
WATER ON RICHMOND RD.
IN LEXINGTON. MOST
f ROADS IN AND OUT OF
LEXINGTON FLOODED.
REPORTED BY HAM OPERATOR.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bourbon | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Fayette | 99 min |
| Jun 29, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Woodford | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Clark, Fayette | 33 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.