Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Louisville, KY

June 29, 1998Bourbon County, Clark County, Fayette County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT for Bourbon County, Clark County, Fayette 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 29, 1998, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 1998, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bourbon County, KY, Clark County, KY, Fayette County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 156 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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, 9:44 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 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.

Local storm report, Jun 29, 2:52 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

Local storm report, Jun 29, 3:24 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

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, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Fayette	27 min
Jun 29, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Woodford	32 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998 Every 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.