Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 29, 2002, 9:26 PM EST for Lee County, Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 79 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2002, 9:26 PM EST (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2002, 10:45 PM EST
- In force
- 79 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 02:28 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 10:00 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Zoe, KY | |
| Mar 29, 10:10 PM EST | Hail 0.75 | Pine Ridge, KY |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 2.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 422 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 745 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
757 WUUS53 KJKL 300226 SVRJKL KYC129-237-300345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 925 PM EST FRI MAR 29 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WOLFE COUNTY NORTHERN LEE COUNTY * UNTIL 1045 PM EST * AT 925 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER STANDING ROCK...OR ABOUT 9 MILES WEST OF CAMPTON...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOOTH AROUND 930 PM EST GRANNIE AROUND 935 PM EST VORTEX AROUND 940 PM EST MALAGA AROUND 945 PM EST SHOCKEY AROUND 950 PM EST A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST SATURDAY MORNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY. THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 70 MPH AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. IF YOU ARE IN OR NEAR THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE JACKSON WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE. $$ HEINLEIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 8:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 32 min |
| Mar 29, 9:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rowan | 37 min |
| Mar 29, 9:17 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Estill | 28 min |
| Mar 29, 9:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Powell | 29 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.