Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 41, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 1:50 PM EDT for Hardin County, Meade County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 1:50 PM EDT (17:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 2:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Hardin County, KY, Meade County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 1:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Flaherty, 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 3323 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 782 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 8.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
449 WFUS1 KSDF 101751 RRA TORSDF KYC093-163-101820- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 150 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHERN HARDIN COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY EASTERN MEADE COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 220 PM EDT * AT 145 PM EDT ... SPOTTERS INDICATED A TORNADO JUST WEST OF FORT KNOX... MOVING EAST 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... FORT KNOX IMMEDIATELY TRAILERS WERE REPORTED BLOWN OVER AT FLAHERTY IN EASTERN MEADE COUNTY. GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR SCHOLZ/COX &
The office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 19 min |
| Jun 10, 6:27 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan | 43 min |
| Jun 10, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 6:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 7:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 33 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.