Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings in 1998
Tornado Warning 42, NWS Louisville, KY
NWS Louisville, KY issued this tornado warning at Jun 10, 1998, 5:27 PM CDT for Butler County, Logan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 10, 1998, 5:27 PM CDT (22:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 1998, 6:10 PM CDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Louisville, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Butler County, KY, Logan 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 5:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.
000 TTAA00 KSDF 102229 RRA TORSDF KYC031-141-102310- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KY 627 PM EDT (527 PM CDT) WED JUN 10 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LOUISVILLE HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN BUTLER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY NORTHERN LOGAN COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY * UNTIL 610 PM CDT (710 PM EDT) * AT 625 PM EDT OR 525 PM CDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 25 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOWLING GREEN NEAR ENNIS... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... QUALITY BY 640 PM EDT HOMER BY 650 PM EDT GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! KIRKPATRICK/KLEIN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this tornado warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 10, 1:38 PM CDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY
238 PM EDT WED JUN 10 1998
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0150 PM FLAHERTY KY WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 MEADE TRAILERS BLOWN OFF
FOUNDATION, POWER LINES -
TREES DOWN, WINDOWS BLOWN
OUT
0215 PM COXS CREEK KY WIND DAMAGE
06/10/98 NELSON TREES AND POWER LINES DOWNThe office that day
Everything else NWS Louisville, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 12:50 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hardin, Meade | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 1:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Anderson | 35 min |
| Jun 10, 1:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Nelson | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 1:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 19 min |
| Jun 10, 5:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 32 min |
| Jun 10, 5:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jun 10, 5:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 6:12 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:17 PM CDT | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.