Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 1999, 7:28 PM EDT for Pike County, Kentucky. It was in force for 62 min. 3 reports 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
- Aug 13, 1999, 7:28 PM EDT (23:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 1999, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Pike County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 7:35 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Meta, KY | Several trees were blown down along John's Creek which blocked Highway 194. |
| Aug 13, 7:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Shelbiana, KY | Trees and power lines blown down. |
| Aug 13, 8:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Greasy Creek, KY | Winds downed several power lines in the area. |
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 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 250 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 207 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1290 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Morgan, Wolfe | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 33 min |
| Aug 13, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 45 min |
Nearby
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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.