Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Jackson, KY

Issued

May 2, 2002, 3:49 PM EDT (19:49 UTC)

Expired

May 2, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT

In force

41 min

Issued by

NWS Jackson, KY

Area

Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Knott County, KY

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

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.

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WUUS53 KJKL 021949
SVRJKL
KYC119-022030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
349 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  KNOTT COUNTY

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 349 PM EDT...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES WEST
  OF FISTY...OR  6 MILES NORTH OF HAZARD...MOVING EAST AT 65 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HINDMAN AROUND 400 PM EDT
  PIPPA PASSES AROUND 405 PM EDT

THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 60 MPH
AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF NICKELS.

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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
THURSDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY.

LAT...LON 3728 8273 3725 8289 3725 8311 3743 8312
          3744 8285 3741 8283 3742 8280 3739 8276
          3734 8277

HEINLEIN

NWS Jackson, KY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 2, 3:30 PM EDT, 19 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
330 PM EDT THU MAY 2 2002

ACTIVE WEATHER CONTINUES ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY. WILL CLEAR AREA
TONIGHT...WITH DRY AND COOLER WEATHER FOR FRIDAY. FRONT WILL STALL
OUT TO OUR SOUTH AND SHORT WAVE MOVING EAST OUT OF MS VALLEY WILL
INDUCE SFC WAVE ALONG FRONT. OVERRUNNING PCPN ON TAP FOR FRIDAY
NIGHT INTO EARLY SATURDAY WITH BEST CHANCE FOR RAIN OVER SRN PART OF
CWFA. THE SHORT WAVE MOVES RAPIDLY NORTHEAST ON SATURDAY WITH DRY
WEATHER BRIEFLY RETURNING FOR SUNDAY. CHC OF TSTMS FOR MUCH OF NEXT
WEEK.

.JKL...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH SRN 1/2 OF AREA UNTIL 8 PM .

SBH

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.