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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 143, NWS Jackson, KY

June 3, 1998Estill County, Lee County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1998, 5:26 PM EDT for Estill County, Lee County, Kentucky. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 3, 1998, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1998, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Estill County, KY, Lee County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 386 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-03Temperature 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 1998-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
301 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 4:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLMcCreary49 min
Jun 3, 3:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLRockcastle50 min
Jun 3, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLClay, Jackson, Laurel48 min
Jun 3, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLBreathitt35 min
Jun 3, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPerry32 min
Jun 3, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.