Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1995, 5:38 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 1995, 5:38 PM EDT (21:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, KY
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 271 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
- 105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 490 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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, Jun 29, 1:35 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 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, 4 hours 1 minute 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, 3 hours 59 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, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 35 min |
| Jun 29, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1995Every 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.