Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 243, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 11:05 PM CDT for Edmonson County, Grayson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 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, 11:05 PM CDT (04:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:05 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2226 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1384 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 300404 RRA SVRSDF KYC061-085-300440- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1205 AM EDT (1105 PM CDT) TUE JUN 30 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... EDMONSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY SOUTHERN GRAYSON COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1140 PM CDT (1240 AM EDT) * AT 1103 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM WESTERN GRAYSON TO NORTHERN BUTLER COUNTY...30 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SHREWSBURY BEFORE 1110 PM CDT BROWNSVILLE BEFORE 1120 PM CDT GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. JDK/VLD
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, 10:19 PM CDT, 46 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1119 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1100 PM SHELBYVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 SHELBY TREES AND POWER LINES
DOWN.
1100 PM SHEPHERDSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 BULLITT TREES DOWN IN THE
NORTH...WEST AND
EASTERN SECTIONS OF
COUNTY.Special weather statement, Jun 29, 10:20 PM CDT, 45 minutes before
INZ076>079-083-084-089>092-300345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1120 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 705 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA: DUBOIS...ORANGE...WASHINGTON...SCOTT...JEFFERSON...PERRY... CRAWFORD...HARRISON...FLOYD AND CLARK. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE CROSSED THE OHIO RIVER INTO KENTUCKY. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA LATER TONIGHT...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. STUREY
Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:38 PM CDT, 27 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1138 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1113 PM TAYLORSVILLE KY WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 SPENCER POWER LINES DOWN.
1120 PM ALTON KY WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 ANDERSON TWO TREES DOWN.Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:46 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1146 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1030 PM LEWISPORT KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98 HANCOCK
1110 PM HARTFORD KY .75 INCH HAIL
06/29/98 OHIOSpecial weather statement, Jun 29, 10:46 PM CDT, 19 minutes before
KYZ023>025-028>034-038-300415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1146 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 705 IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN NORTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY: HANCOCK...BRECKENRIDGE...MEADE...HARDIN...BULLITT...JEFFERSON... OLDHAM...HENRY...CARROLL...GALLATIN...OWEN...SPENCER AND SHELBY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO PUSH DEEPER INTO CENTRAL KENTUCKY ...THEREBY ENDING THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT IN THOSE COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY CLOSER TO THE OHIO RIVER. MORE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT...BUT THEY ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. STUREY
Local storm report, Jun 29, 10:58 PM CDT, 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1158 PM EDT MON JUN 29 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 PM GEORGETOWN KY WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 SCOTT TREES DOWN SEVERAL
LOCATIONS.
1145 PM VERSAILLES KY WIND DAMAGE
06/29/98 WOODFORD THREE TREES DOWN.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 9:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 38 min |
| Jun 29, 9:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 9:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 9:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 9:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Shelby, Spencer | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 10:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 10:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Nelson | 49 min |
| Jun 29, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson, Franklin | 28 min |
| Jun 29, 10:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer, Scott, Woodford | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 10:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Fayette | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Harrison | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 10:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jessamine | 40 min |
| Jun 29, 10:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nicholas | 29 min |
| Jun 29, 10:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 41 min |
| Jun 29, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Boyle, Garrard | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 11:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 33 min |
| Jun 29, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 11:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 34 min |
| Jun 29, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 30 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.