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Tornado Warning 16, NWS Louisville, KY

April 8, 1998Barren County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 2:39 AM CDT for Barren 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: Apr 8, 1998, 2:39 AM CDT (07:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 8, 1998, 3:10 AM CDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Barren County, KY

The radar

The Nashville radar (KOHX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Apr 8, 2:00 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 110 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1130 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 370 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 12.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KSDF 080738 RRA
TORSDF
KYC009-080810-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
339 AM EDT (239 AM CDT) WED APR 8 1998

* TORNADO WARNING FOR
  BARREN COUNTY - SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 310 AM CDT (410 AM EDT)

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED
  GLASGOW BY 245 CDT
  LECTA BY 250 CDT

*AT 235 PM CDT...RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR BECKTON
OR 15 MILES EAST OF BOWLING GREEN. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST
AROUND 40 MPH.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS
TORNADO...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM
ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUILDING. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES.

KOCH/STUREY

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tornado 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, Apr 7, 10:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1152 PM EDT TUE APR 07 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM                              IN   MARBLE SIZE HAIL
04/07/98   WASHINGTON                     AT CAMPBELLSBURG.

WAIDLEY

Local storm report, Apr 7, 10:52 PM CDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
1152 PM EDT TUE APR 07 1998

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 PM                              IN   MARBLE SIZE HAIL
04/07/98   WASHINGTON                     AT CAMPBELLSBURG.

WAIDLEY

The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 8, 1:29 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	46 min
Apr 8, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	47 min
Apr 8, 1:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Warren	39 min
Apr 8, 2:02 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Trimble	33 min
Apr 8, 2:15 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Edmonson	30 min
Apr 8, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	32 min
Apr 8, 2:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Barren	32 min
Apr 8, 2:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hart	32 min
Apr 8, 2:49 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Allen	31 min
Apr 8, 2:57 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green, Metcalfe	23 min
Apr 8, 3:23 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Adair	32 min
Apr 8, 12:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Butler, Warren	31 min
Apr 8, 12:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Edmonson	17 min
Apr 8, 12:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Grayson, Ohio	27 min
Apr 8, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin	25 min
Apr 8, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Meade	30 min
Apr 8, 1:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Bullitt	30 min
Apr 8, 1:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Boyle, Mercer	22 min
Apr 8, 1:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Jefferson, Spencer	32 min
Apr 8, 2:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Shelby	29 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.