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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Jackson, KY

June 30, 1993Lawrence County, Ohio

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1993, 4:43 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 30, 1993, 4:43 PM EDT (20:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 1993, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Lawrence County, OH

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 26 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Huntington/Tri S, WV at 12:00Z on 1993-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 30, 4:35 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
KYZ008-302130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
435 PM EDT WED JUN 30 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOYTHEAST KENTUCKY...

AT 430 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF
SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 50 MILES
NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF JACKSON IN ESTILL COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR
THE CITY OF BEATTYVILLE BY 515 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING
AND SMALL HAIL.

WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A SAFE SHELTER AND
REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LINDQUIST
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:39 PM EDT, 4 minutes before
KYZ008-302130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
435 PM EDT WED JUN 30 1993

...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS SOYTHEAST KENTUCKY...

AT 430 PM EDT...THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ACROSS PARTS OF
SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 50 MILES
NORTHWEST OF THE CITY OF JACKSON IN ESTILL COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS
MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE TO NEAR
THE CITY OF BEATTYVILLE BY 515 PM. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY PRODUCE
BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING
AND SMALL HAIL.

WHEN A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOU SHOULD MOVE INTO A SAFE SHELTER AND
REMAIN INSIDE UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

LINDQUIST

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 4:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLCarter, Lewis59 min
Jun 30, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLElliott67 min
Jun 30, 5:51 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLGreenup, Lewis69 min
Jun 30, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLGreenup61 min
Jun 30, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBoyd58 min
Jun 30, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLHarlan36 min
Jun 30, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike62 min
Jun 30, 5:14 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLAdams46 min
Jun 30, 5:30 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLScioto60 min
Jun 30, 5:42 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLawrence63 min
Jun 30, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLCabell69 min

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.