Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 249, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1998, 7:38 PM EDT for Bullitt County, Jefferson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 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
- Jul 7, 1998, 7:38 PM EDT (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 1998, 8:25 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullitt County, KY, Jefferson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -178 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1063 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 5:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Dubois | 34 min |
| Jul 7, 6:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Crawford | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:15 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Perry | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:56 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Dubois | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 7:31 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Harrison | 119 min |
Nearby
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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.