Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 64, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 1999, 1:55 PM EDT for Bath County, Menifee County, Montgomery County, Kentucky. It was in force for 35 min. 2 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 19, 1999, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 1999, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Bath County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mt Sterling, KY | Trees and power lines down. Winds blew part of a roof off a barn and shingles off a nearby business. |
| Aug 19, 2:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Big Woods, KY | Strong winds moved 2 cabins off their foundations near Turkey Ridge. A trailer lost its porch, and a large number of trees and power lines also were blown down. |
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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 155 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1471 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 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.
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 Aug 19, 3:20 AM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 3:20 AM EDT, 10 hours 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan, Rowan | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Rowan | 30 min |
| Aug 19, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott | 25 min |
| Aug 19, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 5:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Owsley | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Perry | 47 min |
| Aug 19, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 43 min |
| Aug 19, 6:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher | 21 min |
| Aug 19, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 47 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.