Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 1998, 6:29 AM CDT for Ohio County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 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 22, 1998, 6:29 AM CDT (11:29 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 1998, 7:00 AM CDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ohio County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 3731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1074 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
354 WUUS1 KSDF 221130 RRA SVRSDF KYC183-221200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 729 AM EDT (629 AM CDT) FRI MAY 22 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... OHIO COUNTY IN NORTHWESTERN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 700 AM CDT (800 AM EDT) * AT 625 AM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR PLEASANT RIDGE IN NORTHERN OHIO COUNTY... WHICH IS ABOUT 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HARTFORD BY 640 AM CDT BEAVER DAM BY 645 AM CDT DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS STUREY
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, May 22, 5:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
KYZ026-027-061>065-070>078-081-082-222000- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 601 AM EDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT. MAJOR CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ARE BOWLING GREEN...GLASGOW...CAMPBELLSVILLE AND LEITCHFIELD. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS ILLINOIS INTO WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS MORNING WITH ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX LIKELY LATER IN THE DAY. A FRONT LYING NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS KENTUCKY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 REQUIRED. SCHOLZ
Special weather statement, May 22, 5:01 AM CDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before
KYZ026-027-061>065-070>078-081-082-222000- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 601 AM EDT FRI MAY 22 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY TODAY AND TONIGHT. MAJOR CITIES INCLUDED IN THE SLIGHT RISK AREA ARE BOWLING GREEN...GLASGOW...CAMPBELLSVILLE AND LEITCHFIELD. A THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WILL DROP SOUTHEAST ACROSS ILLINOIS INTO WESTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY THIS MORNING WITH ANOTHER THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX LIKELY LATER IN THE DAY. A FRONT LYING NEARLY STATIONARY ACROSS KENTUCKY WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR MORE THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED. 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 REQUIRED. SCHOLZ
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.