Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 18, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Apr 8, 1998, 2:53 PM EDT for Boyle County, Mercer County, Kentucky. It was in force for 22 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, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boyle County, KY, Mercer 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, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 955 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 081853 RRA TORSDF KYC021-167-081915- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 253 PM EDT WED APR 8 1998 * TORNADO WARNING FOR EASTERN BOYLE COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY SOUTHEASTERN MERCER COUNTY - EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED DANVILLE BY 300 PM EDT BURGIN BY 305 PM EDT * AT 250 PM EDT...SPOTTERS REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR THE WESTERN EDGE OF BOYLE COUNTY...OR 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LEXINGTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 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. REC/DK &
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
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076-079-083- 084-089>092-081945- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1115 AM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL SLOWLY DRIFT EASTWARD TODAY...PUSHING EAST OF THE STATE BY THURSDAY MORNING. THE INTERACTION OF THE FRONT WITH WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF IT WILL CAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE TO EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED WITHIN THE THUNDERSTORMS. 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. VLD
Special weather statement, Apr 8, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 38 minutes before
KYZ023>043-045>049-053>057-061>067-070>078-081-082-INZ076-079-083- 084-089>092-081945- CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 1115 AM EDT WED APR 8 1998 THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS INDICATED THAT A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS ACROSS CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COLD FRONT ACROSS WESTERN KENTUCKY WILL SLOWLY DRIFT EASTWARD TODAY...PUSHING EAST OF THE STATE BY THURSDAY MORNING. THE INTERACTION OF THE FRONT WITH WARM MOIST UNSTABLE AIR AHEAD OF IT WILL CAUSE THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY AND SOUTH CENTRAL INDIANA...AND ESPECIALLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY. THE STORMS SHOULD MOVE TO EASTERN KENTUCKY THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES. HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ALSO CAN BE EXPECTED WITHIN THE THUNDERSTORMS. 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. VLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 2:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 46 min |
| Apr 8, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 2:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 39 min |
| Apr 8, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 4:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Warren | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 17 min |
| Apr 8, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Grayson, Ohio | 27 min |
| Apr 8, 2:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin | 25 min |
| Apr 8, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson, Spencer | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:16 PM EDT | 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.