Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 244, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1998, 11:07 PM CDT for Warren County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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, 11:07 PM CDT (04:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1998, 11:40 PM CDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Warren County, KY
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 11:30 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Bowling Green, 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 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, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| 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 97 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
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, 10:19 PM CDT, 48 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, 47 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, 29 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, 21 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, 21 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, 9 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, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Grayson | 35 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 |
| Jun 29, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois, Orange | 31 min |
| Jun 29, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 8:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Washington | 43 min |
| Jun 29, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Crawford, Harrison | 48 min |
| Jun 29, 8:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Scott | 44 min |
| Jun 29, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Perry | 51 min |
| Jun 29, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Floyd | 45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.