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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Jackson, KY

January 24, 1997Leslie County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 24, 1997, 9:53 PM EST for Leslie County, Kentucky. It was in force for 32 min. 1 report 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: Jan 24, 1997, 9:53 PM EST (02:53 UTC)
Expired: Jan 24, 1997, 10:25 PM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Leslie County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 24, 10:05 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Thousandsticks, 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 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 262 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: 490 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 161 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 228 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 Jan 24, 2:18 PM EST, 7 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 24, 2:18 PM EST, 7 hours 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
215 PM EST FRI JAN 24 1997

WARM FRONT N OF CWA WITH ONLY FAR ERN COUNTIES STILL RECEIVING RAIN.
WILL HAVE TO WAIT TIL CD FNT GETS CLOSER UNTIL NEXT SHOT OF SHRA/TSRA
ARRIVES THIS EVENING. MODELS CONSISTENT IN BRINGING FRONT THRU CWA
TONIGHT...PROBABLY THRU JKL AROUND/SHORTLY AFTER 06Z AND EXITING THE
STATE B4 SUNRISE.

MODELS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH ETA A LITTLE STRONGER WITH VORT
LOBE PASSAGE. THIS STRONGER SOLN PROBABLY BETTER PER H20 LOOP
ANALYSIS. LIKELY POPS LOOK GOOD AHEAD OF FRONT TONIGHT WITH RAIN CHCS
DECREASING QUICKLY AFTER FROPA. INSTABILITY PRESENT AND WOULD
CERTAINLY MENTION THUNDER...ALTHOUGH DIURNALLY UNFAVORABLE TIMING
SHOULD KEEP THINGS FROM GETTING OUT OF HAND.

MODELS NOT AS AGGRESSIVE WITH WRAPAROUND MOISTURE THIS RUN SO BELIEVE
PARTLY SUNNY WILL PROBABLY SUFFICE FOR SAT. WOULD EXPECT TO BE BKN
MUCH OF THE DAY. STILL CAN/T RULE OUT A FEW FLURRIES...ALTHOUGH
BELIEVE MOST OF THIS ACTION WILL BE CONFINED TO OUR N AND E PER MY
CONVERSATION W/CRW. TEMPS SHOULD START OUT IN THE UPPER 30S/AROUND 40
THEN FALL OFF A BIT IN THE AFTERNOON AS FORECAST MODEL SOUNDINGS
REVEAL STRONG CAA.

MOSTLY CLEAR CONDS SAT NITE ALONG WITH HI PRES OVHD SHOULD PROVIDE
GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING. SHOULD START THINGS OFF WITH PLENTY OF
SUNSHINE ON SUN...HWVR 60HR AVN QUICKLY STREAKS MOISTURE EWD IN FAST
FLOW WITH WAA LIFT. WOULD GO WITH INCRG CLDS SUN BUT WOUL:D LEAVE OUT
ANY MENTION OF PRECIP.

MOS TEMPS LOOKED PRETTY ATTRACTIVE AND WOULDN'T DEVIATE TOO FAR.

    TEMPS       POPS
JKL 35/37/16/36 7202
LOZ 34/39/16/38 7202

SES/WHP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 24, 9:34 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox	31 min
Jan 24, 10:10 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Perry	30 min

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.