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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Jackson, KY

June 20, 1995Floyd County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 1995, 9:52 PM EDT for Floyd County, Kentucky. It was in force for 38 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jun 20, 1995, 9:52 PM EDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Jun 20, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Floyd County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Huntington/Tri S, WV (KHTS), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2460 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 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
2460 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-8 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1038 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.4

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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
Jun 20, 8:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPike43 min
Jun 20, 8:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Pike36 min
Jun 20, 9:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee, Owsley38 min
Jun 20, 10:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson31 min
Jun 20, 10:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLee29 min
Jun 20, 10:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMorgan32 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.