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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Jackson, KY

April 28, 2002Rowan County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 6:41 AM EDT for Rowan County, Kentucky. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Apr 28, 2002, 6:41 AM EDT (10:41 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2002, 7:15 AM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Rowan County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:45 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
Apr 28, 7:00 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Rodburn, KY	Trees were 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.

Did it verify

Not verified. The Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow found no qualifying storm report inside this severe thunderstorm warning while it was in force. That is not proof nothing happened: reports are thin where few people live.

Cow counts a report within 15 km of the polygon while the warning was in force: a tornado for a tornado warning; hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more or wind damage for a severe thunderstorm warning; a flash flood report for a flash flood warning.

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 536 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 739 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

474 
WUUS53 KJKL 281041
SVRJKL
KYC205-281115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
640 AM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ROWAN COUNTY

* UNTIL 715 AM EDT

* AT 640 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM
  11 MILES NORTH OF MOREHEAD TO 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOREHEAD...
  MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
MOREHEAD AT 650 AM EDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 AM EDT SUNDAY MORNING
FOR SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.

THIS LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 
70 MPH.

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.

LAT...LON 3833 8349 3828 8333 3823 8330 3817 8321
          3808 8335 3817 8358

HEINLEIN

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 Apr 28, 4:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 4:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
330 AM EDT SUN APR 28 2002

NOW FIRMLY IN WARM SECTOR.  ALL MODEL GUIDANCE SIMILAR IN KICKING
RAIN OUT TONIGHT.  WILL PUT NORTHERN COUNTIES IN FLOOD WATCH.  FFG
HAS ALREADY BEEN MET IN SEVERAL COUNTIES AND EXPECTING POSSIBLE
SEVERAL ROUNDS OF HEAVY RAIN. KEEPING WIND ADVISORY FOR HIGHER
TERRAIN.

PREVIOUS FORECAST LOOKS ON TRACK FOR MOST PART. BEEFED UP STORM
WORDING. LOWERED MAX TEMPS WITH INCREASED CLOUD COVER.  COULD SEE
SOME TROUBLE STORMS WITHIN A FEW HOURS.  ANOTHER ROUND IS QUITE
POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON WITH A COMBINATION OF INSTABILITY AND STRONG
WIND PROFILE COULD SPELL TROUBLE FOR US...WITH A RELATIVELY LOW
CONVECTIVE TEMP IN THE MID 70S.

GOT TO GO.

.JKL...WIND ADVISORY THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING FOR ELEVATIONS ABOVE
2000 FEET IN FAR EASTERN KENTUCKY...KYZ087-088-115-117-118-120.

HEINLEIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 28, 6:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath	50 min
Apr 28, 7:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Apr 28, 7:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	31 min
Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel	52 min
Apr 28, 7:49 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson	41 min
Apr 28, 8:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay	41 min
Apr 28, 8:29 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Leslie, Perry	46 min
Apr 28, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	28 min
Apr 28, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Menifee, Wolfe	34 min
Apr 28, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Morgan	30 min
Apr 28, 1:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Morgan	24 min
Apr 28, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin	33 min
Apr 28, 1:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	27 min
Apr 28, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Powell	36 min
Apr 28, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel, Pulaski, Wayne	48 min
Apr 28, 1:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	44 min
Apr 28, 1:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	35 min
Apr 28, 1:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wolfe	39 min
Apr 28, 1:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Pulaski	33 min
Apr 28, 1:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Martin	41 min
Apr 28, 1:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Magoffin, Morgan	35 min
Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	45 min
Apr 28, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Clay, Knox	56 min
Apr 28, 2:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Johnson	31 min
Apr 28, 2:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Breathitt	26 min
Apr 28, 2:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Knott, Perry	28 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bell	25 min
Apr 28, 2:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Owsley	25 min
Apr 28, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Harlan	28 min
Apr 28, 2:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Floyd, Pike	32 min
Apr 28, 3:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Martin	27 min
Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	16 min
Apr 28, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	27 min
Apr 28, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	36 min
Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Laurel	30 min
Apr 28, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Lee	33 min
Apr 28, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Whitley	40 min
Apr 28, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pike	18 min
Apr 28, 6:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	Martin	115 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.