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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Jackson, KY

July 14, 2000Estill County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2000, 7:43 PM EDT for Estill County, Kentucky. It was in force for 47 min. 1 report 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: Jul 14, 2000, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2000, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Estill County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 14, 8:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Witt, KY	Trees 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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: 203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1146 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KLMK 142343
SVRJKL
KYC065-150030-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
ISSUED BY WILMINGTON OH
743 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ESTILL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY...

* UNTIL 830 PM EDT...

* AT 743 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF IRVINE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
  RAVENNA...
  IRVINE...

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

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 Jul 14, 7:08 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 14, 7:08 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
708 PM EDT FRI JUL 14 2000

...UPDATED FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES...

THIS EVENT HAS ESCALATED RAPIDLY INTO FLASH FLOODING...AS CLOUD
ELEMENTS CONTINUE TO FEED INTO TAIL OF MCS OVER EASTERN KY. FLASH
FLOODING COULD CAUSE THE MOST DAMAGE IN FAR EASTERN KY WHERE TERRAIN
IS STEEP AND THE GROUND IS SATURATED.

.JKL...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR NORTHEASTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL
       8 PM EDT AND FOR MUCH OF EASTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 10 PM EDT.

SCHAUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 14, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	66 min
Jul 14, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	49 min
Jul 14, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	46 min
Jul 14, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	43 min
Jul 14, 6:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	43 min
Jul 14, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery	52 min
Jul 14, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee	48 min
Jul 14, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	44 min
Jul 14, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	40 min
Jul 14, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	49 min
Jul 14, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Magoffin	51 min
Jul 14, 7:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Morgan	20 min
Jul 14, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	43 min
Jul 14, 7:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Magoffin	38 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.