Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1998, 5:38 PM CDT for Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 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
- May 21, 1998, 5:38 PM CDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- May 21, 1998, 6:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Logan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 1382 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1095 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 212238 RRA SVRSDF KYC031-141-183-212315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 638 PM EDT (538 PM CDT) THU MAY 21 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 615 PM CDT (715 PM EDT) * AT 535 PM CDT ...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 25 TO 35 MILES WEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HARTFORD AT 545 PM CDT MORGANTOWN AT 555 PM CDT RUSSELLVILLE AT 605 PM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS! RNK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 10:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 35 min |
| May 20, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson, Spencer | 35 min |
| May 20, 11:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 33 min |
| May 21, 12:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Taylor | 32 min |
| May 21, 12:38 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 82 min |
| May 21, 1:40 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 35 min |
| May 21, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Ohio | 37 min |
| May 21, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 17 min |
| May 21, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 17 min |
| May 21, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 22 min |
| May 21, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Ohio | 22 min |
| May 21, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson, Warren | 50 min |
| May 21, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Grayson | 50 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.