Severe Thunderstorm Warning 138, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

Jul 29, 2000, 5:36 PM EDT (21:36 UTC)

Expired

Jul 29, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT

In force

39 min

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS53 KJKL 292138
SVRJKL
KYC065-109-125-173-197-292215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
536 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ESTILL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF IRVINE
  JACKSON COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MCKEE
  LAUREL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF LONDON
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOUNT STERLING
  POWELL COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF STANTON

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 527 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR MOUNT STERLING TO 15      
  MILES WEST OF HIGHTOP...OR FROM MOUNT STERLING TO 10 MILES         
  SOUTHEAST OF SOMERSET...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE...
  OVER ALCORN...BEAN...BLANTON FLATS...BRAZIL AT 545 PM EDT
  OVER ARDERY...CARICO...COW CREEK...DOE CREEK AT 550 PM EDT
  OVER ALUMBAUGH...ARTHURMABEL AT 555 PM EDT

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...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN JACKSON KY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
SATURDAY EVENING FOR KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3815 8396 3699 8423 3700 8409 3801 8378

HAL

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 29, 3:16 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
316 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

TROUGH CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE THE WEATHER ACROSS THE AREA. MODELS
ALL IN DECENT AGREEMENT. MAIN FOCUS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL BE NORTH OF
THE CWA. SINCE WE HAVE NOT HAD ANY WIDE SPREAD HEAVY RAIN AMOUNTS
WILL NOT GO WITH A FLASH FLOOD WATCH...ALTHOUGH WILL CONTINUE THE
MENTION OF HEAVY RAINS POSSIBLE. SPC TALKING ABOUT A POSSIBLE
WEATHER WATCH SO MAY HAVE TO INCLUDE THE MENTION OF SEVERE STORMS.

TROUGH REMAINS IN THE AREA THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK. PRECIP
CHANCES WILL REMAIN IN FORECAST. MODELS BRING IN ANOTHER FRONT TO
THE AREA ON THURSDAY SO EXTENDED SOUNDS LIKE A BROKEN RECORD WITH A
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY.

GUIDANCE NUMBERS SEEM A LITTLE HIGH GIVEN THE CLOUDS AND PRECIP IN
THE AREA FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. WILL CUT THESE NUMBERS
BECAUSE OF THIS.

.JKL...NONE.

HJK

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.