Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 261, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 10, 1998, 12:20 PM CST for Green County, Kentucky. It was in force for 25 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
- Nov 10, 1998, 12:20 PM CST (18:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 12:45 PM CST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Green County, KY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 10:30 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 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.
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, Nov 10, 10:13 AM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1213 PM EDT TUE NOV 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....,
1110 AM ENGLISH IN WIND DAMAGE
11/10/98 CRAWFORD TREES DOWN ON POWER
LINES. REPORT FROM
DISPATCH.Local storm report, Nov 10, 10:13 AM CST, 2 hours 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
1213 PM EDT TUE NOV 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....,
1110 AM ENGLISH IN WIND DAMAGE
11/10/98 CRAWFORD TREES DOWN ON POWER
LINES. REPORT FROM
DISPATCH.Local storm report, Nov 10, 11:37 AM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
137 PM EDT TUE NOV 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0900 AM BRANDENBURG KY NON TSTM WINDS
11/10/98 MEADE *** 6 INJ ***
WIND BLEW OVER CONCRETE
WALL AT NEW
CONSTRUCTION, 6
INJURED, 2 SERIOUSLocal storm report, Nov 10, 11:37 AM CST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
137 PM EDT TUE NOV 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0900 AM BRANDENBURG KY NON TSTM WINDS
11/10/98 MEADE *** 6 INJ ***
WIND BLEW OVER CONCRETE
WALL AT NEW
CONSTRUCTION, 6
INJURED, 2 SERIOUSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 12:10 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 12:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 29 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.