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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 3, 2000, 9:12 PM EST for McCreary County, Whitley County, Kentucky. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2000, 9:12 PM EST (02:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2000, 10:00 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties McCreary County, KY, Whitley County, KY
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:15 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 208 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 688 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 517 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 723 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
611 WUUS53 KLMK 040216 SVRJKL KYC147-235-040300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 912 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WHITLEY COUNTY IN KENTUCKY MCCREARY COUNTY IN KENTUCKY * UNTIL 1000 PM EST * AT 912 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES SOUTH OF HOLLYHILL...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITLEY CITY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * DAMAGING WINDS OF 60 TO 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN JACKSON KY. LAT...LON 3662 8473 3668 8392 3685 8406 3688 8456 LCM
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 Jan 3, 7:10 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 7:10 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 710 PM EST MON JAN 3 2000 WILL BE UPDATING E KY ZONES WITH NEW WATCH THAT IS ANTICIPATED BY 800 PM FOR MY NORTHERN COUNTIES. WWAMKC FROM 03/2353 JUST IN. STORMS COMING UP OUT OF TENNESSEE INTO MY SOUTHWEST COUNTIES DO NOT APPEAR SEVERE FROM THIS VANTAGE POINT AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER STORMS FIRING SOUTH OF BNA MAY BRING SVR TO SE KY LATER THIS EVENING OR OVERNIGHT. TO OUR NORTHWEST...MOST STORMS CONTINUE TO TRAIN ALONG THE OHIO RIVER AND ARE NOT AFFECTING MY CWA. THIS COULD CHANGE IF THE LINE BEGINS TO MOVE SOUTHEAST...BUT LINE HAS NOT SHOWN MUCH TENDENCY TO SINK SOUTH SINCE 400 PM. TEMPS AT FIRST GLANCE APPEAR TO BE A LITTLE ON THE LOW SIDE GIVEN DEWPOINTS BETWEEN 55 AND 60...BUT PROBABLY WON/T ADJUST THEM AT THIS TIME. WINDS SEEM ABOUT RIGHT. FIRST GLANCE AT OUTER PERIODS WOULD LEAD ME TOWARD LIGHT SNOW FOR TUESDAY EVENING. LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE A LONG NIGHT. NO UPDATE UNTIL I HEAR FROM SPC ON NEW WATCH...HOW FAR EAST AND SOUTH IT WILL BE ISSUED FOR. .JKL...NONE. INGRAM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson | 43 min |
| Jan 3, 8:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery | 60 min |
| Jan 3, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Morgan, Rowan | 55 min |
| Jan 3, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Wolfe | 55 min |
| Jan 3, 8:50 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 55 min |
| Jan 3, 9:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 62 min |
| Jan 4, 12:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Menifee, Powell | 44 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.