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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Jackson, KY

June 9, 1990Carter County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1990, 4:50 AM EDT for Carter County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1990, 4:50 AM EDT (08:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1990, 5:30 AM EDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Carter County, KY

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1561 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

KYZ008-090435-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1135 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 1990

AT 1130 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY.
ONE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING INTO THE WESTERN PART OF MORGAN COUNTY...
30 MILES NORTH OF JACKSON. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30
MILES AN HOUR.

THIS THUNDERSTORM WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...OCCASIONAL
LIGHTNING...GUSTY WIND AND POSSIBLE SMALL HAIL. IF YO,U ARE IN THE PATH
OF THIS STORM...TAKE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM ANY
WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
HUDGINS

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 12:29 AM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before

KYZ008-090535-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1235 AM EDT SAT JUN 9 1990

AT 1230 AM EDT...THE THUNDERSTORMS HAD MOVED OUT OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY.
SKIES REMAINED PARTLY CLOUTDY IN MOST AREAS WITH ONLY A FEW SCATTERED
RAINSHOWERS.

STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
HUDGINS

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:34 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 3:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Mason	30 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1990 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1990

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.