Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 160
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 3, 1998, 4:00 PM CST for 34 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 3, 1998, 4:00 PM CST (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 3, 1998, 9:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 34 counties
Adair County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 4:46 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 4:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 4:52 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 5:15 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 5:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 50 min |
| Apr 3, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:25 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Knox | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 6:33 PM CST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Whitley | 32 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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
- 888 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 83 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 12:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 15 more | 6 hr |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.