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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Jackson, KY

July 29, 2000Lee County, Wolfe County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 29, 2000, 6:18 PM EDT for Lee County, Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 42 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: Jul 29, 2000, 6:18 PM EDT (22:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2000, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lee County, KY, Wolfe County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 29, 5:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 197 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: 200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -53 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 147 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KJKL 292218
SVRJKL
KYC129-237-292300-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTH CENTRAL LEE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  WOLFE COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CAMPTON

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 616 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES WEST OF CAMPTON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
  NORTHWEST OF BEATTYVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER CAMPTON AT 640 PM EDT

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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

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

SCHAUB

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 29, 5:40 PM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 5:40 PM EDT, 38 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
540 PM EDT SAT JUL 29 2000

UPDATED TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 11 PM EDT

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...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY UNTIL 11 PM EDT.

SCHAUB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 29, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	37 min
Jul 29, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Rockcastle	44 min
Jul 29, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery, Powell	39 min
Jul 29, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Jackson, Laurel	39 min
Jul 29, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	39 min
Jul 29, 6:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Rowan	48 min
Jul 29, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	31 min
Jul 29, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry	40 min
Jul 29, 6:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin, Morgan	39 min
Jul 29, 6:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Elliott	32 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.