Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1998

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 109, NWS Charleston, WV

June 10, 1998Greenup County, Kentucky

NWS Charleston, WV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1998, 4:06 AM EDT for Greenup County, Kentucky. It was in force for 54 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, 4:06 AM EDT (08:06 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1998, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, WV
Area
Whole counties

County Greenup County, KY

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1998-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 612 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 1998-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 339 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
612 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
339 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
396 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, WV issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 2:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCabell, Mason50 min
Jun 10, 3:18 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln42 min
Jun 10, 3:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWyoming37 min
Jun 10, 4:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoone36 min
Jun 10, 4:42 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXKanawha33 min
Jun 10, 5:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXWayne45 min
Jun 10, 5:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLincoln13 min
Jun 10, 7:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXTaylor30 min
Jun 10, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXLogan, Wyoming32 min
Jun 10, 1:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXJackson41 min
Jun 10, 2:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXGallia, Lawrence40 min
Jun 10, 2:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter45 min
Jun 10, 2:48 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXCarter42 min
Jun 10, 3:36 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRLXCarter3 hr
Jun 10, 4:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLXBoyd36 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.