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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 22, 2003, 5:45 PM EST for Floyd County, Johnson County, Kentucky. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 2003, 5:45 PM EST (22:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 2003, 6:15 PM EST
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:44 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 4:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 161 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS53 KJKL 222245
SVRJKL
KYC071-115-222315-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
545 PM EST SAT FEB 22 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
JOHNSON COUNTY
FLOYD COUNTY
* UNTIL 615 PM EST.
* AT 545 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BAYS
BRANCH...OR 3 MILES NORTH OF PRESTONSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
WELLS CHAPEL AROUND 550 PM EST.
THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING WINDS UP TO 65 MPH
AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS.
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EST
SATURDAY EVENING FOR EASTERN KENTUCKY.
LAT...LON 3791 8271 3788 8264 3786 8268 3780 8268
3770 8261 3757 8278 3770 8294
$$
GEOGERIANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 7:51 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 4 hr |
| Feb 22, 8:53 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 3:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 42 min |
| Feb 22, 3:43 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Jackson, Owsley | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 3:54 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 25 min |
| Feb 22, 4:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 49 min |
| Feb 22, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry | 46 min |
| Feb 22, 5:00 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 30 min |
| Feb 22, 5:09 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Leslie | 36 min |
| Feb 22, 5:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson | 34 min |
| Feb 22, 5:20 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Clay, Leslie | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 35 min |
| Feb 22, 5:34 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 41 min |
| Feb 22, 5:58 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Floyd, Martin | 3 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:58 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Martin | 32 min |
| Feb 22, 6:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 57 min |
| Feb 22, 6:22 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 53 min |
| Feb 22, 6:24 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Letcher, Pike | 51 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.