Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Mar 1, 1997, 2:43 PM EST (19:43 UTC)

Expired

Mar 1, 1997, 3:30 PM EST

In force

47 min

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Jackson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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WUUS1 KJKL 011944 RRA
SVRJKL
KYC203-109-012030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
243 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 330 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...

IN SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY

   ...ROCKCASTLE
   ...JACKSON
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT 25 MILES NORTH OF SOMERSET
AND WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF CONWAY...RENFRO VALLEY...SANDGAP AND KERBY
KNOB THROUGH 330 PM.

DAMAGING WINDS EXCEEDING 60 MPH ARE THE PRIMARY THREAT WITH THIS STORM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR
ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS
PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

SES/CEG/WHP

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Mar 1, 2:16 PM EST, 27 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
220 PM EST SAT MAR 1 1997

LITTLE TIME SPENT DELVING INTO THE MODELS THIS PACKAGE. STILL PLENTY
OF FLASH FLOOD CONCERNS COMBINED WITH OUR FIRST DAY OF HSA
RESPONSIBILITY. WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS.

MODELS COMING INTO BETTER AGREEMENT ON MOVEMENT OF SRN STREAM
SHORTWAVE...HOWEVER NGM SEEMS OUT TO LUNCH ON PRECIP TOTALS. BELIEVE
HEAVIER ETA QPF TO BE BELIEVED AS SHRA/TSRA ADVANCING EWD ACRS CENTRAL
KY. AREAS FROM JKL ON SOUTH HAVE HAD LITTLE IN THE WAY OF RAIN
TODAY...THIS WILL CHANGE AS COLD FRONT HEADS E TONIGHT AND BETTER UVM
BEGINS AFFECTING THE FAR SE. FFA FOR ENTIRE AREA STILL APPEARS
REASONABLE. SVR WX ALSO A POSSIBILITY THIS EVENING AS FAVORABLE WIND
PROFILES PER FCST SOUNDINGS COMBINE WITH LIFT AND INSTAB. BOW ECHO
FEATURES THE PRIMARY CONCERN.

FRONT EXITS STAGE RIGHT BY SUNDAY AFTN...HOWEVER POST FRONTAL RAINFALL
CONTINUES THROUGH THE EVENING AS S/W PASSES TO OUR SOUTH. CATEGORICAL
POPS LOOK REASONABLE INTO SUNDAY AFTERNOON. CHANCE POPS SUNDAY EVENING
OTRW MOSTLY CLDY/COOLER.

MONDAY SHOULD BE PARTLY SUNNY AS MODEL MN RH DECREASES AND WK SFC HI
PRES NOSES IN.

WENT ABOVE GUIDANCE TONIGHT...TEMPS WILL REMAIN IN THE 60S UNTIL
FROPA. ON SUNDAY CAA BEHIND FRONT COMBINED WITH LINGERING PRECIP WILL
CAUSE TEMPS TO FALL BACK INTO THE 50S. MOS TEMPS GENERALLY ACCEPTED
SUN NITE...I.E. 35-40. LOW-MID 50S LOOK GOOD ON MON.

JKL 62/62/36/54 ++30
LOZ 62/62/36/56 ++30

SES

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.