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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Jackson, KY

July 10, 2000Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2000, 10:47 PM EDT for Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 43 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 2000, 10:47 PM EDT (02:47 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 2000, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Rowan County, KY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 10, 11:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Morehead, KY	Trees and power lines down.

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.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1714 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 179 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS53 KJKL 110249
SVRJKL
KYC205-110330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
1047 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROWAN COUNTY IN KENTUCKY
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MOREHEAD

* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT

* AT 1035 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ROWAN COUNTY MOVING SLOWY TO     
  THE TO THE SOUTH.
 
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE...
  OVER MOREHEAD...6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HILDA AT 1130 PM EDT

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

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING.
PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A
BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED.

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 3818 8360 3807 8342 3814 8323 3834 8349

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 10, 8:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 8:45 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
845 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

CURRENT 88D AND SAT PICS HAVE TSRA MOSTLY TO OUR NORTH. A COUPLE OF
THE MORE SOUTHERN STORMS HAVE CLIPPED SOME OF OF OUR NRN COUNTIES
WITH DIME SIZED HAIL. SYSTEM SLOW TO SAG SOUTH AND HAVE CUT THE SRN
HALF OF THE CWFA OFF UNTIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. CONCERN NOW IS FOR
POSSIBLE MCS AS FCST IN ETA MODEL TO DEVELOP IN IA/MO/IL AND MOVE ACROSS
AREA TOWARDS MORNING. UPDATE ALREADY OUT.

.JKL...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR MOST OF EASTERN KENTUCKY TONIGHT
       THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON.

DUSTY

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 6:44 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
644 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
B
0611 PM    JOB                       KY   .75 INCH HAIL
07/10/00   MARTIN                         REPORTED BY STORM
                                          SPOTTER.

Local storm report, Jul 10, 8:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
858 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

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

0610 PM    4 N INEZ                  KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/00   MARTIN                         80 FOOT WIDE PATH OF
                                          TREES DOWN. REPORTED BY
                                          EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.

0615 PM    3 NE INEZ                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/00   MARTIN                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY LAW
                                          ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL.

Local storm report, Jul 10, 9:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
932 PM EDT MON JUL 10 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
G
0929 PM    DALESBURG                 KY   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/00   FLEMING                        SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
                                          REPORTED BY EMERGENCY
                                          MANAGEMENT.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	35 min
Jul 10, 9:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rowan	47 min
Jul 10, 10:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Fleming	38 min
Jul 10, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Morgan	46 min
Jul 10, 11:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Morgan, Rowan	38 min
Jul 10, 11:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Montgomery	36 min
Jul 10, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell, Wolfe	32 min
Jul 10, 11:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	32 min
Jul 10, 11:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	24 min
Jul 11, 12:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	26 min
Jul 11, 7:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Fleming	36 min
Jul 11, 9:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Knott	33 min
Jul 11, 1:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Jackson	42 min
Jul 11, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Owsley	32 min
Jul 11, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	44 min
Jul 11, 2:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	29 min
Jul 11, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Leslie	48 min
Jul 11, 3:01 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie	29 min
Jul 11, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell, Clay, Knox	47 min
Jul 11, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan, Leslie	47 min
Jul 11, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.