Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1998, 1:18 AM EDT for Bullitt County, Nelson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1998, 1:18 AM EDT (05:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1998, 2:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Bullitt County, KY, Nelson County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:21 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Bardstown, KY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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 23, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 4636 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 984 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
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, May 24, 1:12 AM EDT, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
112 AM EDT SUN MAY 24 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0107 AM HARDINSBURG KY WIND DAMAGE
05/24/98 BRECKINRIDGE NUMEROUS TREES AND
POWERLINES DOWN. SMALL
STORAGE BUILDING
DESTROYED.The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Russell | 47 min |
| May 24, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 44 min |
| May 24, 12:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 42 min |
| May 24, 1:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 47 min |
| May 24, 1:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 43 min |
| May 24, 3:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 34 min |
| May 24, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 30 min |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.