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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Jackson, KY

March 19, 2003Laurel County, Kentucky

NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 2003, 4:06 PM EST for Laurel County, Kentucky. It was in force for 24 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: Mar 19, 2003, 4:06 PM EST (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2003, 4:30 PM EST
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Jackson, KY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Laurel County, KY

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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
Mar 19, 12:30 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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: 649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 231 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.

462 
WUUS53 KJKL 192106
SVRJKL
KYC125-192130-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
405 PM EST WED MAR 19 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LAUREL COUNTY

* UNTIL 430 PM EST

* AT 405 PM EST...RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST
  OF HUXLEY...OR 14 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SOMERSET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BUNCH AROUND 415 PM EST.
  BERNSTADT AROUND 420 PM EST.
  CAMP WILDCAT AROUND 425 PM EST.
  LAMERO AROUND 430 PM EST.

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING
FOR SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.

LAT...LON 3694 8437 3698 8436 3700 8432 3707 8433
          3710 8429 3716 8430 3723 8427 3725 8423
          3729 8422 3731 8412 3725 8398 3696 8426

$$
DUSTY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 1:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	46 min
Mar 19, 1:36 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	84 min
Mar 19, 2:09 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Wayne	36 min
Mar 19, 2:51 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	39 min
Mar 19, 3:26 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	McCreary	49 min
Mar 19, 3:35 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary	25 min
Mar 19, 3:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary	20 min
Mar 19, 4:12 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel	18 min
Mar 19, 4:20 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel	10 min
Mar 19, 4:27 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Laurel, Rockcastle	18 min
Mar 19, 4:49 PM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Jackson, Owsley	26 min
Mar 19, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Bath, Menifee, Powell, Wolfe	32 min
Mar 19, 5:31 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Pulaski	14 min
Mar 19, 5:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Rockcastle	18 min
Mar 19, 6:16 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	Estill	29 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.