Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT for Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 4:40 PM EDT (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Floyd County, KY, Pike County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 95 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -223 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1371 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 290 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 258 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.
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, May 10, 11:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 54 minutes before
KYZ069-086>088-106-108>118-120-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 1145 AM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY TODAY... SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THERE IS A MODERATE RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NORTH OF HAZARD AND A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ALONG THE KENTUCKY...TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA BORDERS. THIS IS A PRELIMINARY OUTLOOK. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS WEATHER SITUATION. STAMPER
Special weather statement, May 10, 2:30 PM EDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
KYZ086>088-109-110-112>118-120-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 229 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... BELL...BREATHITT...CLAY...FLOYD...HARLAN...KNOTT...KNOX...LESLIE... LETCHER...MAGOFFIN...OWSLEY...PERRY AND PIKE COUNTIES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL A@ND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAMPER
Special weather statement, May 10, 2:56 PM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
KYZ086>088-106-109-110-112>118-120-110000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 255 PM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY... BELL...BREATHITT...CLAY...FLOYD...HARLAN...KNOTT...KNOX...LESLIE... LETCHER...MAGOFFIN...OWSLEY...PERRY ...PIKE AND MORGAN COUNTIES. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE IN AND NEAR THE WATCH AREA.t LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO SHELTER IF A WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR AREA. STAMPER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie, Perry | 44 min |
| May 10, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Knott | 44 min |
| May 10, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Perry | 27 min |
| May 10, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Pike | 34 min |
| May 10, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie, Perry | 34 min |
| May 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 28 min |
| May 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 28 min |
| May 10, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie, Perry | 36 min |
| May 10, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Pike | 36 min |
| May 10, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott, Letcher, Pike | 26 min |
| May 10, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox, Leslie, Perry | 26 min |
| May 10, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 33 min |
| May 10, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 40 min |
| May 10, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 34 min |
| May 10, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 34 min |
| May 10, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Magoffin | 12 min |
| May 10, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 37 min |
| May 10, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan, Wolfe | 51 min |
| May 10, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 30 min |
| May 10, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 25 min |
| May 10, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 43 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.