Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 1998
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 894
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 10, 1998, 11:30 AM EST for 5 counties in Indiana; 54 counties in Kentucky; 32 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 10, 1998, 11:30 AM EST (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 10, 1998, 4:00 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 91 counties
Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Scott County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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.
Warnings issued inside it
9 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 12:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Williamson | 34 min |
| Nov 10, 12:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 49 min |
| Nov 10, 1:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 35 min |
| Nov 10, 1:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 59 min |
| Nov 10, 1:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green | 25 min |
| Nov 10, 1:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Marion, Taylor | 29 min |
| Nov 10, 1:38 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Gallatin, Owen | 62 min |
| Nov 10, 1:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton | 74 min |
| Nov 10, 2:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Bracken, Mason, Robertson | 56 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1091 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 448 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 547 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 10, 5:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Lake, Newton, Porter | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton, Crawford and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 9:15 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Benton, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 11:45 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Henry and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 7:15 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Tennessee, 1998Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Indiana, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.