Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 2:57 AM CDT for Green County, Metcalfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 23 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, 2:57 AM CDT (07:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:20 AM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Green County, KY, Metcalfe 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 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
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 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, 4 hours 5 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.
WAIDLEYLocal storm report, Apr 7, 10:52 PM CDT, 4 hours 5 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.
WAIDLEYLocal storm report, Apr 8, 2:48 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
348 AM EDT WED APR 08 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
330 AM KY LARGE TREES DOWN ACROSS
04/07/98 SIMPSON NORTHERN SIMPSON COUNTY.
WAIDLEYLocal storm report, Apr 8, 2:48 AM CDT, 9 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
348 AM EDT WED APR 08 1998
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
330 AM KY LARGE TREES DOWN ACROSS
04/07/98 SIMPSON NORTHERN SIMPSON COUNTY.
WAIDLEYThe 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, 2:39 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 2:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 31 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.