Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 224
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 16, 1998, 1:45 AM EST for 21 counties in Indiana; 74 counties in Kentucky; 12 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1998, 1:45 AM EST (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 7:00 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 107 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Mason County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:44 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
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 1:55 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Union, Webster | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 2:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:48 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Butler | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 4:05 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont, Clinton, Warren | 4 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ohio, Switzerland | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:10 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Carroll | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:00 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Fayette | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 5:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue | 38 min |
| Apr 16, 5:17 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Green, Hart, Larue | 28 min |
| Apr 16, 5:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark, Madison | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 5:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 5:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 5:35 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Trimble | 85 min |
| Apr 16, 5:36 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Hamilton | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:03 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Switzerland | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Ohio | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:30 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Clermont, Warren | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 24 min |
| Apr 16, 6:51 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 34 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 449 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 15, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 42 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ohio, Switzerland | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gibson, Posey | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Huntington, Kosciusko and 7 more | |
| Apr 16, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Dearborn and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calloway | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 47 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Brown, Carroll, Coshocton and 42 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 1998Tornado Watches in Indiana, 1998Tornado Watches in Ohio, 1998Every tornado 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.