Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 340
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT for 39 counties in Kentucky; Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 1998, 10:00 PM EDT (02:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 1998, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Anderson County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Lee County, VA
Warnings issued inside it
2 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Montgomery | 62 min |
| May 13, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 212 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
- 470 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1112 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 390 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Virginia, 1998Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.