Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 29, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT for Trimble County, Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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 31, 1998, 5:04 PM EDT (21:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Trimble 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 161 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
- 1259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -256 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
293 WFUS1 KSDF 312106 RRA TORSDF KYC223-312135- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 504 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TRIMBLE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT AT 500 PM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR PAYNESVILLE IN SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY INDIANA OR 25 MILES NORTHEAST OF LOUSIVILLE... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... MT PLEASANT AND BEDFORD AT 515 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR STUREY/COX
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 45 min |
| May 31, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Henry | 31 min |
| May 31, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 37 min |
| May 31, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 34 min |
| May 31, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 43 min |
| May 31, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin | 39 min |
| May 31, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt | 39 min |
| May 31, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin | 49 min |
| May 31, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 35 min |
| May 31, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Nelson | 42 min |
| May 31, 7:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Washington | 41 min |
| May 31, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue | 35 min |
| May 31, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 36 min |
| May 31, 7:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 31 min |
| May 31, 7:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 28 min |
| May 31, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 29 min |
| May 31, 7:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Taylor | 43 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.