Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 3, 1998, 3:45 PM CST for Monroe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 45 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
- Apr 3, 1998, 3:45 PM CST (21:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 4:30 PM CST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, KY
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 032147 RRA SVRSDF KYC171-032230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 445 PM EST (345 PM CST) FRI APR 3 1998 * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONROE COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 430 PM CST (530 PM EST) * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED AKERSVILLE BY 355PM CST GAMLIEL BY 405 PM CST * AT 344 PM CST DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 30 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE OR IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS AND STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE NOTICE. LD/REC/MK
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
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 10:15 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076>079-083- 084-089>092-040000- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1115 AM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BOWLING GREEN... GLASGOW...AND COLUMBIA. METRO LOUISVILLE AND THE FRANKFORT-LEXINGTON AREA ARE NOT IN THIS RISK AREA...BUT SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A WARM FRONT NEAR THE KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE STATE LINE...AND A COLD FRONT FROM THE LOW PRESSURE SOUTH TO THE GULF. THIS SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP RAIN...SHOWERS ...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INTO TENNESSEE. TONIGHT THE SYSTEM PUSHES ACROSS KENTUCKY AND TAKES MOST OF THE RAIN TO EASTERN PARTS...WHILE THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN SOUTH ACROSS TENNESSEE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. THIS IS AN UPDATED OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATER TODAY. RNK/MCT
Special weather statement, Apr 3, 10:15 AM CST, 5 hours 30 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076>079-083- 084-089>092-040000- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1115 AM EST FRI APR 3 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BOWLING GREEN... GLASGOW...AND COLUMBIA. METRO LOUISVILLE AND THE FRANKFORT-LEXINGTON AREA ARE NOT IN THIS RISK AREA...BUT SOME SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED FOR NORTHERN KENTUCKY. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN EASTERN OKLAHOMA WILL MOVE INTO KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH A WARM FRONT NEAR THE KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE STATE LINE...AND A COLD FRONT FROM THE LOW PRESSURE SOUTH TO THE GULF. THIS SYSTEM WILL DEVELOP RAIN...SHOWERS ...AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...WITH SOME SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER SOUTHERN KENTUCKY INTO TENNESSEE. TONIGHT THE SYSTEM PUSHES ACROSS KENTUCKY AND TAKES MOST OF THE RAIN TO EASTERN PARTS...WHILE THE MAIN THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS SHOULD REMAIN SOUTH ACROSS TENNESSEE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS...AND LARGE HAIL. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN ALSO BE EXPECTED. THIS IS AN UPDATED OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OR THE MEDIA FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION. SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED LATER TODAY. RNK/MCT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 43 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.