Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 1993, 8:40 PM EDT for Boyd County, Carter County, Lawrence County, Kentucky. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 1993, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 1993, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Boyd County, KY, Carter County, KY, Lawrence County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1158 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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, Jul 1, 6:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
KYZ008-012300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 610 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR BREATHITT...FLOYD... LEE...MAGOFFIN...MORGAN...PIKE AND WOLFE... AT 6 PM A FEW SHOWERS WERE OVER PIKE COUNTY IN EXTREME EASTERN KENTUCKY. THERE WAS NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE REGION...HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOPE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND POSSIBLY TORNADOS. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LINDQUIST
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 6:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before
KYZ008-012300 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 610 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM FOR BREATHITT...FLOYD... LEE...MAGOFFIN...MORGAN...PIKE AND WOLFE... AT 6 PM A FEW SHOWERS WERE OVER PIKE COUNTY IN EXTREME EASTERN KENTUCKY. THERE WAS NO SEVERE WEATHER IN THE REGION...HOWEVER CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOPE ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND POSSIBLY TORNADOS. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RA@DIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. LINDQUIST
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
KYZ008-020030 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 706 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR BREATHITT... FLOYD...LEE...MAGOFFIN...MORGAN...PIKE AND WOLFE COUNTIES... AT 7 PM...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ...SOME WHICH COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WAIDLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 7:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
KYZ008-020030 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 706 PM EDT THU JUL 1 1993 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT FOR BREATHITT... FLOYD...LEE...MAGOFFIN...MORGAN...PIKE AND WOLFE COUNTIES... AT 7 PM...NO THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING ACROSS SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... HOWEVER CONDITIONS REMAIN FAVORABLE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ...SOME WHICH COULD PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER AND TORNADOES. IF YOU SEE A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHING YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER IN A STRONG BUILDING. REMAIN INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. WAIDLEY
Special weather statement, Jul 1, 8:24 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 8:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott | 57 min |
| Jul 1, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Boyd, Carter | 56 min |
| Jul 2, 11:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin | 94 min |
| Jul 2, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin | 94 min |
| Jul 1, 8:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 62 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.