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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Jackson, KY

May 5, 1996Magoffin County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 5, 1996, 8:02 PM EDT for Magoffin County, Kentucky. It was in force for 33 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, 8:02 PM EDT (00:02 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 1996, 8:35 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Magoffin County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 202 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-06Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 251 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
580 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
251 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
273 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, 4 hours 18 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, 4 hours 12 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, 3 hours 16 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
Local storm report, May 5, 7:52 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
748 PM EDT SUN MAY 5 1996

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

1940 EDT         META                   KY    QUARTER SIZE HAIL
5/5/96           PIKE                         REPORTED FROM SPOTTER
                                              6 MILES NORTH OF
                                              PIKEVILLE
HUETTL

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.