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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 119, NWS Jackson, KY

August 17, 1997Elliott County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1997, 7:32 PM EDT for Elliott County, Kentucky. It was in force for 63 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: Aug 17, 1997, 7:32 PM EDT (23:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 17, 1997, 8:35 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Elliott County, KY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 17, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 39 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -211 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 131 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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.

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 17, 1:44 PM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 17, 1:44 PM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
200 PM EDT SUN AUG 17 1997

CONVECTION FIRING RAPIDLY AT 1730Z SO DISC WILL BE BRIEF. CATEGORICAL
POPS FOR THIS EVENING SHOULD SUFFICE BASED ON LATE AFTERNOON RADAR
TRENDS.

TEMPS COOLER ON MONDAY WITH NW SFC FLOW BEHIND THE FRONT WITH GRADUAL
CLEARING POSSIBLE DURING THE DAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE AFTERNOON.
STILL MAY BE A FEW LINGERING -SHRA MON MORNING. DRY TUESDAY.

WOULD LIKE TO SEE HEAVY RAIN CONTINUED IN THE EVENING ZFP BASED ON
DEWPOINTS IN THE MIDDLE 70S...SLOW MOVING FRONT...AND JET IMPINGING ON
FRONT. HAVE ALREADY SEEN (VIA RCS PRODUCT) WATER LOADED STORMS. THIS
MAY TURN OUT TO BE ANOTHER HYDRO EVENT. WILL MONITOR IFLOWS.

JKL  67/82/60/85   +300
LOZ  66/83/63/86   +300

INGRAM

In the hours before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 17, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	63 min
Aug 17, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	61 min
Aug 17, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	48 min
Aug 17, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	50 min
Aug 17, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Rowan	46 min
Aug 17, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	62 min
Aug 17, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	61 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.