Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Jackson, KY
NWS Jackson, KY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2005, 5:23 PM EDT for Wolfe County, Kentucky. It was in force for 40 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
- May 19, 2005, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2005, 6:03 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Jackson, KY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wolfe County, KY
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:23 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.
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 1850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 192124
SVRJKL
KYC237-192200-
/O.NEW.KJKL.SV.W.0049.050519T2123Z-050519T2200Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
523 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN JACKSON KY
HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WOLFE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST KENTUCKY
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 517 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ROGERS...OR ABOUT NEAR CAMPTON...AND MOVING
EAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BAPTIST...CALABOOSE AND VALERIA BY 530 PM EDT
STILLWATER...TRENT...LANDSAW AND GOSNEYVILLE BY 535 PM EDT
HAZEL GREEN...LEXIE AND MALAGA BY 540 PM EDT
THIS STORM PRODUCED DIME SIZED HAIL AT PINE RIDGE AT 520 PM.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY.
LAT...LON 3779 8336 3771 8327 3768 8326 3768 8334
3770 8340 3766 8346 3766 8358 3770 8368
3777 8368 3783 8362 3781 8358 3786 8349
$$
GEOGERIAN2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS53 KJKL 192142 RRA
SVSJKL
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
542 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
KYC237-192200-
/O.CON.KJKL.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050519T2200Z/
WOLFE KY-
542 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR WOLFE
COUNTY...
AT 538 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CALABOOSE...OR ABOUT NEAR CAMPTON...
MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
HAZEL GREEN BY 545 PM EDT
LAT...LON 3779 8336 3771 8327 3768 8326 3768 8334
3770 8340 3766 8346 3766 8358 3770 8368
3777 8368 3783 8362 3781 8358 3786 8349
$$
PELTON000
WWUS53 KJKL 192203
SVSJKL
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
603 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
KYC237-192210-
/O.EXP.KJKL.SV.W.0049.000000T0000Z-050519T2200Z/
WOLFE KY-
603 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WOLFE COUNTY EXPIRED AT 600 PM
EDT...
THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS EXITED THE AREA.
REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ASK THAT THEY
RELAY THE REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
LAT...LON 3779 8336 3771 8327 3768 8326 3768 8334
3770 8340 3766 8346 3766 8358 3770 8368
3777 8368 3783 8362 3781 8358 3786 8349
$$
PELTONWhat 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 May 19, 4:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 4:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 410PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT)... SURFACE LOW OVER IL WITH A WARM FRONTAL BOUNDARY STRETCHING ESE ACROSS NORTHER PORTION OF JKL FA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN VCTY OF THE WARM FRONT...AS WELL AS IN THE WARM SECTOR ACROSS MOST OF KY. NAM/GFS IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH MOVING THIS SURFACE LOW SLOWLY TO THE ESE. IT SHOULD CROSS THE JKL AREA DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY. UNTIL THAT TIME...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE IN THE FCST. MID-LEVEL S/W WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING...WITH ANOTHER FOLLOWING EARLY FRIDAY. BDRY LAYER FORCING IS RATHER WEAK IN THE WARM SECTOR...BUT ANY FORCING WILL ALLOW CONVECTION TO TRIGGER IN MODERATELY UNSTABLE AIRMASS. SCATTERED SEVERE WILL BE POSSIBLE INTO THE EVENING HOURS. SURFACE SYSTEM SHOULD MOVE SOUTH OF THE AREA BY LATE FRIDAY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS SHOULD DIMINISH AS THE DAY PROGRESSES...ALTHOUGH MO CLOUDY CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN. SKIES SHOULD BEGIN TO CLEAR OUT LATER FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE SHOULD BUILD IN ON SATURDAY. && .LONG TERM (SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY)... FOLLOWING PASSAGE OF GTLAKES SHORTWAVE MONDAY...NW UPR FLOW CONTINUES AND SHRA LINGERS IN COLDER AIRMASS. TEMPS WELL BELOW NORMAL FOR MON INTO EARLY TUES..BEFORE WEAK RIDGING ALLOWS TEMPS TO MODERATE SOME. GFS LR SIMILAR TO ECMWF BEYOND 00Z TUE...WTH DRY CONDITIONS FROM TUE NIGHT THROUGH END OF FCST PERIOD. MORE ZONAL PATTERN MOVES IN BY VERY LATE IN PERIOD...WTH POSSIBILITY OF PRECIP TOWARD VERY END OF PERIOD...AS ANOTHER GTLAKES S/WV PUSHES THROUGH BEGINNING ON FRI. && .JKL WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .ST...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 19, 5:44 AM EDT, 11 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY 544 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 KYZ044-050>052-058>060-068-069-079-080-083>088-104-106>120-201100- BATH-BELL-BREATHITT-CLAY-ELLIOTT-ESTILL-FLEMING-FLOYD-HARLAN-JACKSON- JOHNSON-KNOTT-KNOX-LAUREL-LEE-LESLIE-LETCHER-MAGOFFIN-MARTIN- MCCREARY-MENIFEE-MONTGOMERY-MORGAN-OWSLEY-PERRY-PIKE-POWELL-PULASKI- ROCKCASTLE-ROWAN-WAYNE-WHITLEY-WOLFE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...BARBOURVILLE...BEATTYVILLE...BOONEVILLE... CAMPTON...FLEMINGSBURG...FRENCHBURG...HARLAN...HAZARD...HINDMAN... HYDEN...INEZ...IRVINE...JACKSON...LONDON...MANCHESTER...MCKEE... MIDDLESBORO...MONTICELLO...MOREHEAD...MOUNT STERLING... MOUNT VERNON...OWINGSVILLE...PAINTSVILLE...PIKEVILLE...PINEVILLE... PRESTONSBURG...SALYERSVILLE...SANDY HOOK...SOMERSET...STANTON... WEST LIBERTY...WHITESBURG...WHITLEY CITY AND WILLIAMSBURG 544 AM EDT THU MAY 19 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE. SPC HAS PLACED AREAS NORTH OF HIGHWAY 80 IN A SLIGHT RISK AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREATS. HPC HAS ALSO PLACED PORTIONS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR EXCESSIVE RAINFALL. SLOW MOVING AND TRAINING THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND SOME ISOLATED FLASH FLOODING PROBLEMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS FRIDAY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FROM SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT AND AGAIN FROM TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. JM
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
233 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0225 PM HAIL FLEMINGSBURG 38.42N 83.74W
05/19/2005 0.75 INCH FLEMING KY TRAINED SPOTTER
DIME SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND IN DOWNTOWN
FLEMINGSBURG.
&&
ARICHEYLocal storm report, May 19, 4:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON KY
418 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0345 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 S MANCHESTER 37.11N 83.77W
05/19/2005 CLAY KY PUBLIC
SEVERAL LARGE...WRIST SIZE LIMBS DOWN NEAR HIGHWAY 11.
&&
RAYThe office that day
Everything else NWS Jackson, KY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 47 min |
| May 19, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 44 min |
| May 19, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 40 min |
| May 19, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath | 33 min |
| May 19, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 28 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.