Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 180
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 8, 1998, 3:00 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 1998, 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 1998, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 104 counties
Clark County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming 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, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan 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, Scioto County, OH, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Wayne County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:03 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
18 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 8, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Davidson | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 3:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 4:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Adair | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 4:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Wilson | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 4:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Rutherford, Wilson | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 4:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Jackson | 53 min |
| Apr 8, 5:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Lawrence | 38 min |
| Apr 8, 5:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 35 min |
| Apr 8, 5:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | Overton | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 5:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 49 min |
| Apr 8, 5:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OHX | White | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 441 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 12.6
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 7, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Floyd and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Floyd, Harlan and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 8, 8:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chester, Fayette, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, McNairy and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Bledsoe, Cannon, Cheatham, Coffee, Cumberland and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell and 52 more | 7 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.