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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Jackson, KY

May 19, 2000Letcher County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2000, 1:39 PM EDT for Letcher County, Kentucky. It was in force for 66 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 19, 2000, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2000, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties

County Letcher County, KY

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 270 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: 369 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 0.7

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The text

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

834 
WUUS53 KJKL 191739
SVRJKL
TTAA00 KJKL 191739

KYC133-191845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
139 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN LETCHER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 139 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES NORTH
  OF COLSON...OR ABOUT 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HINDMAN...MOVING EAST AT
  40 MPH.

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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


GREIF

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 May 19, 10:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 19, 10:35 AM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1035 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 2000

14Z SFC ANALYSIS SHOWS WEAK LOW PRESSURE OVER CENTRAL OHIO WITH A
COLD FRONT DRAPED SOUTHWEST TO CENTRAL ARKANSAS. TO THE EAST THE
BOUNDARY MEANDERS NORTH TO PITTSBURGH AND THEN BACK SOUTH TO ANOTHER
WEAK LOW ON THE DELAWARE/MARYLAND PENINSULA. ON RADAR ISOLATED TO
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE RUNNING WELL AHEAD OF THE FRONT ACROSS
NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND INTO WEST VIRGINIA. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO
INCREASE AS THE DAY WEARS ON AND THE FRONT PRESSES CLOSER. PLENTIFUL
CLOUDS ARE KEEPING TEMPERATURES IN CHECK AT THE MOMENT...BUT A LULL
FOLLOWING THIS FIRST WAVE MAY ALLOW MORE SUNSHINE ACROSS THE SOUTH
NECESSITATING HIGHER HIGHS...WHILE ALSO INCREASING POTENTIAL FOR
STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE LATEST FORECAST MODEL
SOUNDINGS YIELD CAPES TO NEAR 3000 J/KG AND LIS TO MINUS 5 BY
EVENING. WILL UPDATE THE FORECAST CLOSER TO NOON TO FINE TUNE THE
AFTERNOON PRECIPITATION AND RAISE TEMPERATURES IF NECESSARY.

.JKL...NONE.

GREIF

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 19, 1:18 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1218 PM EST FRI MAY 19 2000

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1209 PM    HAZARD                    KY   .88 INCH HAIL
05/19/00   PERRY                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT. EVENT
                                          DURATION 1 MINUTE.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 12:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	62 min
May 19, 1:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott	61 min
May 19, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	59 min
May 19, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Leslie	55 min
May 19, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson, Magoffin	60 min
May 19, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Perry	56 min
May 19, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Harlan	57 min
May 19, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Letcher, Pike	67 min
May 19, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	54 min
May 19, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	27 min
May 19, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.