Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY

May 5, 1996Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 7:12 PM EDT for Floyd County, Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 63 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 1996, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Floyd County, KY, Pike County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
May 5, 7:30 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Belfry, KY
May 5, 7:40 PM EDT	Hail 1	Meta, KY
May 5, 8:00 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Zebulon, KY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 238 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KJKL 052313
SVRJKL
KYC071-195-060015-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
712 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

   ...FLOYD COUNTY
   ...PIKE COUNTY
 
AT 710 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF PIKEVILLE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST
AT 35 MPH AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF BETSY LANE...GRETHEL...AND
PIKEVILLE.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY H>EAVY RAIN.  FOR YOUR
PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR
HOME OR BUSINESS.

SBH

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, 3 hours 28 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, 3 hours 22 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

Local storm report, May 5, 4:46 PM EDT, 2 hours 26 minutes before

LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
444 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

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

1640 EDT         SANDGAP                KY    MARBLE SIZE HAIL
5/5/96           JACKSON                      REPORTED 5 MILES
                                              NORTHWEST OF MCKEE

HUETTL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Knott	77 min
May 5, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	61 min
May 5, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	59 min
May 5, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson	59 min
May 5, 4:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	61 min
May 5, 7:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	64 min
May 5, 7:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Pike	4 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.