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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Jackson, KY

May 17, 20004 counties in Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 2000, 1:34 AM EDT for 4 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 26 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: May 17, 2000, 1:34 AM EDT (05:34 UTC)
Expired: May 17, 2000, 2:00 AM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bath County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Powell County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 471 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

805 
WUUS53 KJKL 170539
SVRJKL
KYC011-165-173-197-170600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
134 AM EDT WED MAY 17 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  POWELL COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY   
  MENIFEE COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY
  BATH COUNTY IN EAST CENTRAL KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 134 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER COONS
  STATION...OR ABOUT 4 MILES EAST OF MOUNT STERLING...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLAY LICK AT 140 AM EDT
  FAGAN AT 150 AM EDT

HAIL UP TO DIME SIZE OR THREE QUARTERS INCHES IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN 
REPORTED WITH THIS STORM COVERING THE GROUND JUST NORTH OF MOUNT 
STERLING. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A 
GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN 
EXCESS OF 55 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A 
SHELTER...PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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

DUSTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 17, 1:58 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Powell, Wolfe	47 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.