Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 2:55 PM EDT for Clay County, Leslie County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Clay County, KY, Leslie County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 294 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
- 362 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 871 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KJKL 291856 RRA SVRJKL KYC025-051-131-189-193-291930- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 255 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION S... IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY ...SOUTHWESTERN BREATHITT COUNTY...NORTHEASTERN CLAY COUNTY ...NORTHERN LESLIE COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN OWSLEY COUNTY ...NORTHWESTERN PERRY COUNTY AT 250 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM HAD RAPIDLY DEVELOPED AROUND 21 MILES WEST OF HAZARD...OR NEAR BRUTUS IN FAR NORTHEAST CLAY COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST NEAR 20 MPH AND WILL AFFECT BUCKHORN LAKE AND THE COMMUNITIES OF MORRIS FORK...SIZEROCK... TALBERT...ALTRO AND RAYS CREEK THROUGH 330 PM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. HUETTL
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, Jun 29, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
KYZ106-109-110-120-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 133 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MORGAN...MAGOFFIN...FLOYD AND PIKE COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN OHIO VALLEY WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER NORTHEAST KENTUCKY TO PRODUCE SOME SEVERE STORMS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL FIRE UP QUICKLY AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINS... AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS. CITIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE WEST AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TO(WERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUETTL
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
KYZ106-109-110-120-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 137 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MORGAN...MAGOFFIN...FLOYD AND PIKE COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN OHIO VALLEY WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER NORTHEAST KENTUCKY TO PRODUCE SOME SEVERE STORMS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL FIRE UP QUICKLY AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINS... AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS. CITIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE WEST LIBERTY...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG AND PIKEVILEE. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. HUETTL
Special weather statement, Jun 29, 1:39 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
KYZ106-109-110-120-300000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KENTUCKY 137 PM EDT THU JUN 29 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR MORGAN...MAGOFFIN...FLOYD AND PIKE COUNTIES UNTIL 8 PM... AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING ACROSS THE EASTERN OHIO VALLEY WILL INTERACT WITH A VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER NORTHEAST KENTUCKY TO PRODUCE SOME SEVERE STORMS INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL FIRE UP QUICKLY AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...TORRENTIAL RAINS... AND POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS. CITIES OF SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA ARE WEST LIBERTY...SALYERSVILLE...PRESTONSBURG AND PIKEVILEE. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST W2EATHER INFORMATION. HUETTL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley, Perry | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 36 min |
| Jun 29, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 37 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.