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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 167, NWS Jackson, KY

June 13, 1998Laurel County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1998, 3:07 AM EDT for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 28 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 13, 1998, 3:07 AM EDT (07:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 1998, 3:35 AM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Laurel County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 13, 1:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 247 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: 1825 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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 Jun 13, 2:17 AM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:17 AM EDT, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 13, 1:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 57 minutes before

KYZ044-130540-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
110 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

....SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FLEMING COUNTY CANCELLED AT 100 AM
EDT...

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR FLEMING COUNTY THAT WAS IN EFFECT
UNTIL 400 AM EDT HAS BEEN CANCELLED. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAD
MOVED SOUTHEAST OF FLEMING COUNTY AS OF 100 AM EDT...THEREFORE THE
WATCH WAS CANCELLED.

WHP

Local storm report, Jun 13, 1:56 AM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
156 AM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1242 AM    4 W MOREHEAD              KY   WIND DAMAGE
06/13/98   ROWAN                          POWER LINES DOWN REPORTED BY
                                          POLICE DEPT

Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:51 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:51 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 13, 2:55 AM EDT, 12 minutes 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
Jun 13, 12:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Montgomery	49 min
Jun 13, 12:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Rowan	30 min
Jun 13, 1:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	34 min
Jun 13, 1:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Owsley	35 min
Jun 13, 2:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd	31 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.