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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 211, NWS Jackson, KY

September 29, 1998Menifee County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 29, 1998, 7:12 PM EDT for Menifee County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 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
Sep 29, 1998, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired
Sep 29, 1998, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Jackson, KY
Area
Whole counties

County Menifee County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 371 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 1998-09-29Temperature 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 1998-09-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 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
Sep 29, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLPulaski62 min
Sep 29, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLaurel64 min
Sep 29, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLLetcher63 min
Sep 29, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKLJackson62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.