Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 170, NWS Paducah, KY
NWS Paducah, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1998, 9:01 PM CDT for Calloway County, Kentucky. It was in force for 29 min. 2 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
- Jun 11, 1998, 9:01 PM CDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1998, 9:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Paducah, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Calloway County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 9:05 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 | Dexter, KY | Spotters estimated a wind gust between 55 and 60 MPH just inside the county line near Kenlake State Resort Park. |
| Jun 11, 9:20 PM CDT | Thunderstorm Wind 52 | Murray, KY | Thunderstorm winds bent a flagpole and peeled metal roofing off a building at the Calloway County fairgrounds. |
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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 393 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
- 851 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 817 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 178 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 8.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Paducah, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 11, 1:15 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 1:15 PM CDT, 7 hours 46 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Paducah, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 7:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Webster | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Trigg | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | McLean | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 31 min |
| Jun 12, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Jackson, Perry | 50 min |
| Jun 12, 6:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Jackson | 55 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998
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.