Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches in 1998
Tornado Watch 234
The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Apr 16, 1998, 4:30 PM CDT for 53 counties in Kentucky; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Scioto County, Ohio. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1998, 4:30 PM CDT (21:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1998, 11:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 56 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owsley 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, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Scioto County, OH
Warnings issued inside it
30 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 4:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 33 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:16 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 68 min |
| Apr 16, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 5:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 27 min |
| Apr 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 6:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Lincoln | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 6:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 61 min |
| Apr 16, 6:26 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Jackson | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Fleming | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 6:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 6:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 7:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Barren, Warren | 112 min |
| Apr 16, 7:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LMK | Metcalfe | 112 min |
| Apr 16, 7:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Owsley | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 48 min |
| Apr 16, 7:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Lee | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 66 min |
| Apr 16, 8:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 8:19 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 36 min |
| Apr 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Whitley | 3 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Wayne | 3 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 986 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 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 15, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Crittenden, Daviess, Grayson and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, McCracken | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 68 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 7:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calloway | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Crawford, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock and 14 more | |
| Apr 16, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Brown, Carroll, Coshocton and 42 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 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.