Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 38, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 7:17 PM CDT for Adair County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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, 7:17 PM CDT (00:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 1998, 7:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Adair 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, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 3629 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1064 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 302 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 5.1
- Supercell composite
- 21.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 010019 RRA TORSDF KYC001-010045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 817 PM EDT (717 PM CDT) SUN MAY 31 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN ADAIR COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 745 PM CDT (845 PM EDT) * AT 715 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR THE TOWN OF SPECK IN SOUTHEAST TAYLOR COUNTY...OR 30 MILES NORTHHWEST OF SOMERSET... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... CASEY CREEK BY 725 PM CDT KNIFELEY BY 725 PM CDT PELLYTON BY 735 PM CDT 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, 7:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 41 min |
| May 31, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 31, 7:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Russell | 32 min |
| May 31, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey | 18 min |
| May 31, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion | 33 min |
| May 31, 8:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hardin, Larue | 38 min |
| May 31, 8:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hart | 36 min |
| May 31, 8:28 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Marion | 3 hr |
| May 31, 8:30 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Taylor | 90 min |
| May 31, 8:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 48 min |
| May 31, 8:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green | 47 min |
| May 31, 9:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 36 min |
| May 31, 10:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Adair | 2 hr |
| May 31, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 33 min |
| May 31, 10:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Russell | 119 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.