Hail, Carter
- When
- May 24, 2:55 PM EST
- Where
- Carter County, Boone Furnace
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.470, -83.120
Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, May 24, 1998
5 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $40,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
5 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Greenup
- When
- May 24, 3:05 PM EST
- Where
- Greenup County, Warnock
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -82.980
Hail, Greenup
- When
- May 24, 3:05 PM EST
- Where
- Greenup County, Kehoe
- Measured
- 1.25 in hail
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Coordinates
- 38.480, -83.050
Vehicular windshields were cracked.
Tornado, Greenup
- When
- May 24, 3:15 PM EST to 3:18 PM EST
- Where
- Greenup County, Kehoe to 1 mi SE of Kehoe
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 38.500, -83.070
The tornado skipped along the ground. Peak wind gusts were estimated around 70 mph. The path was through sparsely populated wooded countryside. A survey team saw damage to telephone and electrical lines. Numerous trees were fallen, but no structures were affected.
Hail, Boyd
- When
- May 24, 3:45 PM EST
- Where
- Boyd County, Ashland
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.470, -82.630
Hail, Greenup
- When
- May 24, 4:13 PM EST
- Where
- Greenup County, Lloyd
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.620, -82.870
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 24 to 25, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 24 to 25, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 24, 1998
- Lightning Strike in West Virginia, May 24, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Indiana, May 24, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, May 24 to 26, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Colorado, May 24, 1998
- Tornado in Colorado, May 24, 1998
- Hail in Texas, May 24, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 24, 1998
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, May 24 to 25, 1998
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 24, 1998
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kentucky, 1998Warnings in Kentucky, May 1998
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5640252, 5640148, 5640150, 5640149, 5640253, 5640254.