Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 25, 1998, 7:44 AM CDT for Butler County, Kentucky. It was in force for 46 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 25, 1998, 7:44 AM CDT (12:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 1998, 8:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Butler County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 120 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
- 2174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 774 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 5.8
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
Special weather statement, May 25, 3:39 AM CDT, 4 hours 5 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076-079-083- 084-089>092-260600- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 430 AM MON MAY 25 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING FROM EASTERN OHIO TO NEAR PADUCAH WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MEANWHILE...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL RIDE ALONG THE FRONT AND MOVE TOWARD WESTERN KENTUCKY BY THIS EVENING. THIS LOW COMBINED WITH THE INTERACTION OF THE THE FRONT AND THE WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY 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. COX
Special weather statement, May 25, 3:47 AM CDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076-079-083- 084-089>092-260600- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 445 AM MON MAY 25 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDING FROM EASTERN OHIO TO NEAR PADUCAH WILL REMAIN IN PLACE ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. MEANWHILE...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FROM CENTRAL OKLAHOMA WILL RIDE ALONG THE FRONT AND MOVE TOWARD WESTERN KENTUCKY BY THIS EVENING. THIS LOW COMBINED WITH THE INTERACTION OF THE FRONT AND THE WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR WILL CAUSE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY 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. COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:28 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 47 min |
| May 25, 9:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 33 min |
| May 25, 9:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 29 min |
| May 25, 9:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 31 min |
| May 25, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Taylor | 30 min |
| May 25, 10:01 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 49 min |
| May 25, 10:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey, Russell | 44 min |
| May 25, 6:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 34 min |
| May 25, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey | 34 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.