Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 37, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 7:47 PM EDT for Taylor County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 1998, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Taylor County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 7:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Campbellsville, KY | |
| May 31, 7:59 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Campbellsville, KY | |
| May 31, 8:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Campbellsville, KY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
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, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 754 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 312348 TORSDF KYC217-010035- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 747 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... TAYLOR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 830 PM EDT * AT 745 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE SOUTHEAST LARUE-NORTHWEST TAYLOR COUNTY LINE... OR...50 MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... HOBSON BY 750 PM EDT CAMPBELLSVILLE BY 800 PM EDT MANNSVILLE BY 810 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR!> FUNK
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, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Trimble | 26 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 |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.