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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Jackson, KY

May 5, 1996Jackson County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 4:11 PM EDT for Jackson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 1996, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 5:10 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Jackson County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 1996-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 110 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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

Local storm report, May 5, 3:44 PM EDT, 27 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
343 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME EST      .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE          ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

1445 EDT         META                   KY    PEA SIZE HAIL
5/5/96           PIKE                         REPORTED BY SPOTTER
                                              6 MILES NORTH OF
                                              PIKEVILLE

HUETTL
Local storm report, May 5, 3:50 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
348 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

TIME EST      .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    ...EVENT...
DATE          ....COUNTY LOCATION....            ...REMARKS...

1537 EDT         STONE                  KY    QUARTER SIZE HAIL
5/5/96           PIKE                         REPORTED BY DEPUTY
                                              OFF ROUTE 199

HUETTL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt, Knott77 min
May 5, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPerry61 min
May 5, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd59 min
May 5, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLJackson61 min
May 5, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLFloyd, Pike63 min
May 5, 7:21 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLFloyd, Pike64 min
May 5, 7:53 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKLPike4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.