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Tornado Warning 39, NWS Louisville, KY

May 31, 1998Casey County, Kentucky

NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 1998, 8:47 PM EDT for Casey County, Kentucky. It was in force for 18 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, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 1998, 9:05 PM EDT
In force: 18 min
Issued by: NWS Louisville, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Casey 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, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 199 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

880 
WFUS1 KSDF 010049 RRA
TORSDF

KYC045-010105-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY
847 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN CASEY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 905 PM EDT

* AT 845 PM EDT... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO NEAR DUNNVILLE...20
  MILES NORTHWEST OF SOMERSET... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  WINDSOR BY 850 PM EDT

GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR

FUNK


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The office that day

Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 8:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Casey	41 min
May 31, 8:17 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair	28 min
May 31, 8:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Lincoln	27 min
May 31, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Russell	32 min
May 31, 9:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Marion	33 min
May 31, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue	38 min
May 31, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Hart	36 min
May 31, 9:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Marion	3 hr
May 31, 9:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Taylor	90 min
May 31, 9:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Green	48 min
May 31, 9:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Green	47 min
May 31, 10:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Logan	36 min
May 31, 11:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Adair	2 hr
May 31, 11:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LMK	Simpson	33 min
May 31, 11:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	LMK	Russell	119 min

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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.