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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Jackson, KY

May 13, 1995Owsley County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 1:14 PM EDT for Owsley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 1:14 PM EDT (17:14 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 1995, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Owsley County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 148 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 1995-05-13Temperature 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 1995-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1227 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay, Jackson34 min
May 13, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell, Knox34 min
May 13, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell, Clay, Harlan, Leslie30 min
May 13, 12:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson, Owsley30 min
May 13, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBell, Leslie, Perry31 min
May 13, 1:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLClay2 hr
May 13, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLHarlan, Leslie, Letcher36 min
May 13, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay36 min
May 13, 3:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLClay, Leslie2 hr
May 13, 3:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLHarlan2 hr
May 13, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Pike35 min
May 13, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike21 min

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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.