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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Jackson, KY

May 10, 1995Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 8:42 PM EDT for Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 1995, 8:42 PM EDT (00:42 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1995, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, KY, Pike County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 1222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 3.4

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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, May 10, 2:56 PM EDT, 5 hours 46 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

Special weather statement, May 10, 5:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 27 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
May 10, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Owsley, Perry	33 min
May 10, 8:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.